Session 1: Create and Apply styles in the document
1. What are Styles ?. What are the advantages of using styles.
Answer – Styles are pre-defined formatting attributes in digital document
processing that can be used to apply consistent formatting to text and other
elements. The advantages of using styles include –
• Consistency throughout the document
• Efficiency in formatting the document
• Flexibility in making changes to the document
• Improved accessibility for users with assistive technologies.
2. Give any four styles supported by OpenOffice.org
Answer – OpenOffice.org supports various styles, including:
• Paragraph Styles: Used to format paragraphs, including
indentation, line spacing, and font size.
• Character Styles: Used to format individual characters, including
font type, size, color, and style.
• Page Styles: Used to format the overall appearance of a page,
including margins, headers, and footers.
• List Styles: Used to format bulleted or numbered lists, including
the type of bullet or number, indentation, and spacing.
3. 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.
4. 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
5. 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.
Session 2: Insert and use images
6. 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. Explain Image Cropping
Answer – Image cropping is the process of removing unwanted parts of an
image by selecting and keeping a specific portion of the image while
discarding the rest. Method for cropping image are right-click the image and
choose Picture from the pop-up menu to begin cropping it. Select the Crop
page in the Picture dialogue box.