Digital Documentation (Advanced)

SESSION 1:
Q1. What are 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.

Q2. Write three advantages of using styles in digital documentation.

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 make formatting changes very fast.

Q3. Write five types of styles available in OpenOffice.org

Ans. Five Styles supported by OpenOffice.org are.

1. Paragraph styles
2. Character styles
3. Page styles.
4. Frame styles
5. List Styles

Q4. Define the following styles in reference to Writer.

a. Paragraph style
b. Character style

Ans. Paragraph Style : control all aspects of a paragraph’s appearance, such as text

alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders.

Character styles : affect selected text with in a paragraph, such as the font and size of text, or
bold and italic formats.
Q5. Under which menu Styles and Formatting option appear in Writer.
Ans. Format menu.

Q6. What is the shortcut to open Styles and Formatting?

Ans. F11

Q7. Write three ways to open Styles and Formatting Window.

Ans. Three ways to open Styles and formatting window are as follows :

1. Click the Styles and Formatting icon located at the left-hand end of the object
bar.
2. Click Format > Styles and Formatting
3. Press F11 from the keyboard

Q8. How can you apply style in Writer?

Ans. We can apply styles in writer as follows:

1. Click Format > Styles and Formatting

2. The Styles and Formatting window shows the types of styles available.
3. To apply an existing style (except for character styles), position the insertion
point in the paragraph and then double-click on the name of the style available in
the lists.
4 To apply a character style, select the characters first.

Q9. How is Fill Format is useful for applying styles?

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.

Q10. How can you quit or deactivate file format mode?

Ans. To quit Format mode, click the Fill Format mode icon again or press the Esc key
from the keyboard.

Q11. Write two ways of creating new styles.

Ans. Two ways of creating new styles are :

1. Creating a new style from a selection.

2. Dragging And Dropping To Create A Style.

Q12. 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.

Multiple Choice Questions

Q1. A _________ is a set of formats that you can apply
to selected pages, text, frames.
a. Style
b. Template
c. Image
d. Graphics
Ans. a. Style

Q2. We can quickly change the appearance of

documents by applying styles.(T/F)
a. True
b. False
Ans. a. True

Q3. Which of the following styles is not offered by

OpenOffice.org?
a. Page Style
b. Frame Style
c. Presentation Style
d. Video Style
Ans. d. Video Style

Q4. Which of the style include header and footers,

border, margins.
a. Character Style
b. Page Style
c. Frame style
d. Presentation Style
Ans. b. Page Style

Q5. Which style affect the selected text such as font

size, bold and italics format?
a. Cell Styles
b. Numbering Styles
c. Character Styles
d. Frame Styles
Ans. c. Character Styles

Q6. What is the shortcut for opening styles and

formatting window?
a. F12
b. F8
c. F11
d. F10
Ans. c. F11

Q7. Styles and Formatting Window is available in

______ menu.
a. Format
b. Insert
c. Tools
d. View
Ans. a. Format
Q8. Fill Format mode help to apply styles to many
different areas quickly.(T/F)
a. True
b. False
Ans. a. True

Q9. When Fill Format mode is active, _____ click

undo last Fill Format action.
a. right and left
b. left
c. right
d. None of the above
Ans. c. right

Q10. To quit Fill Format mode press

the ____________ key.
a. Enter
b. Ctrl
c. Shift
d. Escape
Ans. d. Escape

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