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77-881 · Question #101

You have inserted a clipart in a document. You need to put a reflection effect to the clipart as shown in the image given below: You open the Format tab. Mark the option on which you will click to…

You will click the Picture Effects option on the Format tab to put a reflection effect to the clipart.

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Question

You have inserted a clipart in a document. You need to put a reflection effect to the clipart as shown in the image given below: You open the Format tab. Mark the option on which you will click to accomplish the task.

Explanation

You will click the Picture Effects option on the Format tab to put a reflection effect to the clipart.

Topics

#clipart#reflection effect#picture effects#Format tab

Community Discussion

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Viktor S.Viktor S.Jun 24, 2026

The answer is Picture Effects. On the Format tab under Picture Tools, Microsoft groups all the visual transformations, like shadow, glow, bevel, and reflection, under that one button because they are all rendering effects applied to the image itself, not to the layout or style border around it. People get tripped up because they go hunting through Picture Styles thinking a reflection is some kind of style preset, but styles control the border and frame look, not the optical effects. Click Picture Effects, hover over Reflection in the dropdown, and you get a gallery of reflection variants to pick from. Know the distinction between Picture Styles and Picture Effects and you will not fumble this on the real job either.

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Fatima Z.Fatima Z.Jun 26, 2026

Picture Effects is your click, home to all six artistic shadow cousins including Reflection.

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Toby R.Toby R.Jun 26, 2026

Saw this exact style of question on the exam and the key thing to understand is that once you select the clipart and get to the Format tab (which is the Picture Tools Format tab that only appears when you have an image selected), reflection is not its own standalone button, it lives under Picture Effects. So you click Picture Effects, hover over Reflection, and then pick the reflection variant that matches the preview image they show you. The reason they word it as "mark the option" is because they want you to identify Picture Effects specifically, not just know that reflection exists somewhere. My question is whether you understand why shadow and glow effects live in that same Picture Effects menu, because the exam loves to test if you know which visual treatments share that dropdown versus which ones are in a completely separate spot on the ribbon.

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Fatima Z.Fatima Z.Jun 27, 2026

Yes, and to lock in WHY those six all share that dropdown, just remember SGRSB3 (Shadow, Glow, Reflection, Soft Edges, Bevel, 3D Rotation) because they are all "costume jewelry" draped on top of the image without changing the actual pixels, while Corrections and Color live elsewhere because they tweak the image itself, and that one conceptual split is exactly what the exam is probing.

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Bao N.Bao N.Jun 21, 2026

Picture Effects is the right click here, and that trips up a lot of people because they instinctively go for Picture Styles thinking it handles all visual effects. Once you click Picture Effects on the Format tab, you get a dropdown with categories including Reflection, which is exactly where that tiered mirror look comes from. Word 2010 groups Shadow, Glow, Bevel, and Reflection all under that one button, so knowing that hierarchy saves you on multiple question variants. If you have been missing questions about image formatting, drilling the Format tab ribbon layout a few times clears up most of the confusion fast.

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Nina C.Nina C.Jun 26, 2026

The wording trips me up a little because you technically click Picture Effects first and then choose Reflection from the submenu, so "Picture Effects" is the one to mark here, not just "Reflection" on its own if that shows up as a separate choice.

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