Digital Documentation Class 10 IT Code 402

Q1. What are Styles ? What are the advantages

of using styles?
Ans. A style is a set of formats that you can apply to selected pages, text,
frames, and other elements in your document to quickly change their
appearance.
Advantages of using styles are :
1. Styles help us to apply consistent formatting to the documents.
2. Using styles we can easily change the existing format.
3. Styles makes major formatting changes simple.

Q2. Give any four styles supported by

OpenOffice.org
Ans. Four Styles supported by OpenOffice.org are.
1. Page styles include margins, headers and footers, borders and
backgrounds.
2. Paragraph styles control all aspects of a paragraph’s appearance, such as
text alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders.
3. Character styles affect selected text within a paragraph, such as the font
and size of text, or bold and italic formats.
4. Numbering styles apply similar alignment, numbering or bullet.

Q3. How can we create our own styles?

Ans. We can create new styles by following two ways :
1. Creating new styles from selection.
2. Dragging And Dropping To Create A Style.

Q4. Explain any four Graphic filters.

Ans. Four graphic filters are :
Invert : Inverts the color values of a color image or the brightness values of
a grayscale image.
Smooth : Softens the contrast of an image.
Sharpen : Increases the contrast of an image.
Posterize : Makes a picture appear like a painting.

Q5. Explain Image Cropping.

Ans. When you are interested in a section of the image for the purpose of
your document, you may wish to crop (cut off) parts of it. Right click on
image and select Picture from the pop-up menu. In the Picture dialog box,
select the Crop page and select the part from left, right, top and bottom
which you want to remove.

Q6. List any three methods of inserting images

in a text document.
Ans. Three methods of inserting images in a text document are :
a. Drag and Drop
b. Inserting An Image From The Clipboard
c. Inserting An Image Using A Scanner

Q7. What do you understand by the terms:

a. Text Wrapping
b. Anchoring
Ans. Text wrapping refers to the relation of graphics to the surrounding
text, which may wrap around the graphic on one or both sides, be
overprinted behind or in front of the graphic.
Anchoring : IT refers to the reference point for the graphics. This point
could be the page, or frame where the object is. An image always has an
anchor point.

Q8. What are templates? What are the

advantages of using templates?
Ans. A template is a model that you use to create other documents. For
example, you can create a template for business reports that has your
company’s logo on the first page. When you create a new documents from
this template will all have your company’s logo on the first page.
One of the major advantages of using templates is the ease of updating
styles in more than one document. Another advantage is that it also saves
your time.

Q9. What is the difference between styles and

templates?
Ans.
Styles Templates

A style is a set of formats that you can

apply to
selected pages, text, frames, and other A template is a model that you use to create
elements other documents.
in your document to quickly change their
appearance.

Styles help to keep formatting consistent Templates help to keep formatting consistent
in the entire document across multiple documents

Q10. Explain different ways of creating a

template
Ans. Templates can be created in the following two ways

1. Creating A Template From A Document

To create a template from a document:
a. Open a new or existing document of the type you want to make into a
template
b. Add the content and styles that you want.
c. From the main menu, choose
File > Templates > Save.
d. The template dialog box open.
e. Type the name of the template.
f. Click OK to save the new template
2. Creating A Template Using A Wizard
a. From the main menu, choose File > Wizards >[type of template required]
b. Follow the instructions on the pages of the wizard.
c. In the last section of the wizard, you can specify the name and location
for saving the template.

Q11. Explain Mail Merge.

Ans. A mail merge is a way to take a letter you’ve written and send it to a
whole bunch of people, personalizing it with information about them so
they might think that you typed that letter personally for them. In short, it’s
a way to be personal, yet efficient.

Q12. What are advantages of Mail Merge?

Ans. Advantages of mail merge are :
1. It saves our time and efforts.
2. It helps to create multiple personalized letters in a very less time.
3. It also help to keep the formatting consistent in all the letters.

Q13. Give examples of databases in which the

Data Source can be created.
Ans. Databases in which the Data Source can be created are :
1. MySQL
2. MS – Access
3. OpenOffice base
4. Oracle