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PART-B UNIT-1
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DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION(ADVANCED)

Styles in a document

Intellectual Skill Sheet

I. Multiple Choice Questions.
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. C

II. Fill in the blanks.

1. Style set 2. Character 3. List

III. Very Short Answer Type Questions.

1. What are styles?
A: Styles are sets of formatting options that can be applied to text or objects in a
document or Formatting a character or word as per the user requirements is called
as Style. Styles help maintain consistency in formatting throughout your
document
and make it easier to manage and update the appearance of your
content.
2. In which tab the styles group is located and what does it
contains?
A: The styles group is located under the format tab (click
Format>Styles and
Formatting press F11.) and contains Heading, Indent, Signature etc.
or
3. Define the List Style?
A: List Style is customized for presenting lists of information. It can
include bullets,
numbers, indentation and other formats typical of the parts of a document that
present lists of information.
4. Name all the items available on Menu bar.
A: The menu bar which contains various menu items - File,
Edit, View, Insert, Format,
Table, Tools, Window and help.
IV. Short Answer Type Questions.
1. Write Some advantages for using style.
A: a. Styles help us to apply consistent
formatting to the documents. For example, all
paragraphs will have same font, size and line spacing etc.
b. Style make the major formatting changes simple.
c. Styles make formatting changes very fast - just
change the style's formatting
features and it will be instantly applied to all the places that are
based on this style.

2
 What are the various ways to select styles to apply in
OpenOffice.org?
OpenOffice.org provides several ways for you to select styles to apply. They are as
follows:
a. Click the Styles and formatting icon located at the left-hand end of
the object bar,
or

b. Click Format- Styles and formatting, or

C. Press F11.
3. Differentiate between abulleted list and a numbered list.
A: A bulleted list iS used for typing unordered lists where
items in the list are not in a
sequence. A numbered list is used for ordered lists where the sequence of the items IS
important.
V. Long Answer Type Questions.
1. What are the different styles supported by the
A:
Open0ffice.org?
OpenOffice.org supports the following types of styles:
a. Page styles include margins, headers and footers, borders and
backgrounds.
b. Paragraph styles control all aspects of aparagraph's
appearance, such as text
alignment, tab stops, line spacing and borders, and can include character formatting.
C. Character styles affect selected text within a paragraph, such as the
font and size of
text, or bold and italic formats.
d. Frame styles are used to format graphic and text
frames, including wrapping type,
borders, backgrounds, and columns.
e. Numbering styles apply similar alignment, numbering or bullet
characters, and fonts
to numnbered or bulleted lists.

f. Graphic styles in drawings and presentations include line, area, shadowing,

transparency, font, connectors, dimensioning and other attributes.
g. Presentation styles include attributes for font,
indents, spacing, alignment and tabs.
2. Write allthe steps to apply styles for the document.
A: In OpenOffice Writer there are various styles
available. They are Paragraph style.
Character style, Frame style, Page style and List style.
For example, to apply paragraph styles the following steps has to be
followed.
Step 1: Place the cursor in a paragraph or click and drag to
select a paragraph to
which you want to apply the style.
Step 2: In the styles and formatting pane, you will see a list of
styles.
Step 3: Double click on any of the styles which you want to apply.
In asimilar way, same steps can be applied for other styles.