1. What are Styles ?. What are the advantages of using styles.

Answer – A style is a collection of formats that you can use to easily change the appearance of chosen
pages, text, frames, and other elements in your document.
Advantages:
Styles help to ensure that a document is uniform.
They also make it simple to make large formatting modifications.

Different types of styles:

a. Page Styles – Margin, headers and footers, borders, and backgrounds are all examples of page
styles.

b. Paragraph Styles – Paragraph styles can contain character formatting and affect all aspects of a
paragraph’s look, such as text alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders.

c. Character Styles – Character styles impact the font and size of selected text within a paragraph, as
well as bold and italic formats.

d. Frame Styles – Frame styles, such as wrapping type, borders, backgrounds, and columns.

e. Numbered Styles – Numbered Style include Alignment, Numbering, bullet characters.

f. Cell Styles – Fonts, alignment, borders, background, number formats, and cell protection are all
included in cell styles.

g. Graphics Styles – Line, area, transparency, shadowing, font, connectors, dimensioning, and other
characteristics are included in graphic styles in drawings and presentations.

h. Presentation Styles – Font, indents, spacing, alignment, and tab characteristics are all included in
presentation styles.

2. What is the best way to load styles from a template or another document?

Answer –
You can copy styles by loading them from a template or another document, for example:

1. Open the document into which you wish to paste the styles.

2. In the Styles and Formatting window, click on Load Styles after long-clicking on the arrow next to the
New Style from Selection symbol.

3. Locate and choose the template you wish to copy styles from in the Load Styles window

4. Choose the style categories you want to copy. If you want the copied styles to overwrite any styles
with the same names in the document you’re putting them into, select Overwrite.
5. To copy styles from another document, click the From File button to bring up a box where you may
choose the required file.

3. How can you modify the style?

Answer – Styles can be changed in a variety of ways in OpenOffice.org.

• Load or copy styles from another document or template
• Update a style from a selection

4. How can we create our own styles?

Answer – There are two different ways to create a style –

Creating a new style from a selection – You can copy a new style from an existing style. This new style
will only be applied to this document and will not be saved in the template.
Dragging And Dropping To Create A Style – You can drag and drop a text selection into the Styles and
Formatting window to create a new style

5. Explain any five Graphic filters.

Answer – The following are four graphic filters:

a. Invert – Changing the color in the color image, and giving brightness in grayscale image.
b. Solarization – Increasing the effects of excessive light in a photograph.
c. Posterize – Reduces the number of colours in a picture to make it look like a painting.
d. Charcoal – The image is displayed as a charcoal sketch.
e. Mosaic – Combines groupings of pixels into a single colour area.

7. List any three methods of inserting images in a text document.

Answer – The three methods for inserting images in digital documents are –
Drag and Drop
Inserting image from clipboard
Insert image from Scanner

8. What do you understand by the terms:

a. Text Wrapping
b. Anchoring

Answer –
a. Text Wrapping – Text wrapping describes the relationship between graphics and the surrounding
text, which may wrap around the graphic on one or both sides, be overprinted behind or in front of the
graphic, or be overprinted behind or in front of the graphic.
b. Anchoring – The graphics’ reference point is referred to as IT. This point could represent the
object’s location on the page or in the frame. An anchor point is always present in an image.
9 What are templates? What are the advantages of using templates?

Answer – A template is a type of document that you can use to make a similar type of document.
Templates can contain text, graphics, style, design.

Advantage of template are –

a. Document creation is made easier with templates.
b. It save time to giving style in document
c. The use of templates helps to keep the audience’s interest.

10. What is the difference between styles and templates?

Answer –
a. Style – Styles ensure that your formatting is consistent throughout a document.

b. Template – Templates allow you to reuse text and maintain a consistent look and feel across many
projects.

What do you mean by table of content?

Answer – The table of contents tool in Writer allows you to create an automated table of contents
from your document’s headings.

Many of the elements are used in table of content –

a. E# – It indicate chapter number

b. E – It represents the entry text
c. T – It represents tab stop
d. LS – It represents start of a hyperlink
e. LE – It represents End of a hyperlink

13. Explain Mail Merge.

Answer – A mail merge is a method of personalizing a message you’ve written and sending it to a
large group of people, giving the impression that you prepared the letter specifically for them.

14. What are the advantages of Mail Merge?

Answer – Advantages of mail merge are –

a. It’s simple to send the same mail to a big group of recipients using the Mail Merge tool.
b. We don’t have to type each recipient’s name separately in each letter when we use Mail Merge.
c. It’s one of the most efficient ways to mass-produce hundreds of personalized letters in a short
amount of time.
d. It is simple to amend the letter because any change made in the main letter will be reflected in all
other recipients’ letters.
Q15. All documents in OpenOffice.org are based on ______________
Ans. Templates

Q16 . Write two ways of opening new document.

Ans. Two ways of opening new document are :
1. Click on File –> New
2. Press Ctrl + N from keyboard

Q. 17) Write two advantages of using styles in digital documentation.

Ans. Two advantages of using styles are :
1. Styles help to improve consistency in a document.
2. Styles also make the major formatting changes very simple.

Q18 . Under which menu Styles and Formatting option appear in Writer.
Ans. Styles and Formatting option appear in Format menu.

Q19. What is the shortcut to open Styles and Formatting?

Ans. F11 is the shortcut to open Styles and Formatting.

Q20. What is Fill Format mode in Styles and Formatting Window?

Ans. Fill format mode is used to apply a style to many different areas quickly. This method is quite useful
when you need to format many scattered paragraphs with same styles.

Q21. When Fill format mode is active then right click anywhere in the
document will ____________ the last format action.
Ans. Undo

Q 22) . Write the shortcut to copy and paste an image

Ans. Shortcut for copy is : Ctrl + C and shortcut for paste is : Ctrl + V

Q23 . What do you mean by Image Cropping? How can you do

Ans. Image Cropping means to cut a particular section/part of an image for a document. To start cropping
the image, right click on it and select Picture from the pop-up menu. In the Picture dialog box, select the
Crop page.

Q24. What do you mean by resizing an image?

Ans. Resizing an image means to increase or decrease the size of an image according to the requirement.
Q25. How can you resize an image?
Ans. To resize an image :
1 Select the picture by clicking on it to show the green sizing handles.
2. Drag the handles to resize.
3. Release the mouse button when satisfied with the new size.

Q26. Write two ways of creating templates

Ans. Two ways of creating templates are :

1. Creating a template from a document.
2. Creating a template using wizard.

Q27 Write two ways of opening new document

Ans. Two ways of opening new document are :

1. Click on File –> New
2. Press Ctrl + N from keyboard

Q28. Name two documents which is to be created for Mail Merge.

Ans. Two documents are:

1. Main document.
2. Data Source

Q29. Name two application/software which can be used to create data source.

Ans. Two application/software which can be used to create data source are:
1. Spreadsheet
2. MS-Access

Q30 . Can we merge the Main document and data source into a single document?

Ans. Yes
 Short cut keys

Open a document. Ctrl+O

Create a new document. Ctrl+N
Save the document. Ctrl+S
Close the document. Ctrl+W
Cut the selected content to the Clipboard. Ctrl+X
Copy the selected content to the Clipboard. Ctrl+C
Paste the contents of the Clipboard. Ctrl+V
Select all document content. Ctrl+A
Apply bold formatting to text. Ctrl+B
Apply italic formatting to text. Ctrl+I
Apply underline formatting to text. Ctrl+U
Decrease the font size by 1 point. Ctrl+Left bracket ([)
Increase the font size by 1 point. Ctrl+Right bracket (])
Center the text. Ctrl+E
Align the text to the left. Ctrl+L
Align the text to the right. Ctrl+R
Cancel a command. Esc
Undo the previous action. Ctrl+Z
Redo the previous action, if possible. Ctrl+Y