Question

use the drop-down menus to complete the statements about creating a table of authorities. before inserting a table of authorities, you must first create or mark dropdown. to insert a table of authorities, look under the command group in the dropdown tab.

Explanation:

1. For the first blank: When creating a table of authorities in Word (a common word - processing software context), you must first create or mark citations (or "authorities" in the relevant marking process) because the table of authorities is based on the citations (legal or reference - type citations) that you have marked in the document.
2. For the second blank: To insert a table of authorities, in Microsoft Word, you look under the References tab. The "References" tab contains the command group for table of authorities (along with other reference - related features like table of contents, citations, etc.).

Answer:

First drop - down: citations (or "authorities" in some contexts)
Second drop - down: References