Session 1-Styles in a Document

 

Assignment: Question Answer

1. What is style? Name some style categories.

Answer: A style is a named collection of various formatting information that defines the look and behavior of document components associated with this style.

Categories of Styles are:-

·        Paragraph styles

·        Character styles

·        Page styles

·        Frame styles

·        List styles

2. What is the shortcut to open Styles and Formatting Window?

Answer: Shortcut keys: F11

Another method to open:-

·        Format -> Styles and Formatting

·        Styles and Formatting button on the Formatting toolbar

·        In the Formatting Toolbar > Click on Apply Style > Select More

3. What is a paragraph style?

 Answer: Paragraph styles control all aspects of a paragraph’s appearance, such as text
alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders, and can include character
formatting.

 4. What are the different categories of styles in Writer?

Answer: Different categories of Styles are: –

·        Character Styles

·        Paragraph Styles

·        Frame Styles

·        Page Styles

·        List Styles

5. What are the advantages of styles?

Answer: Advantages of Styles are: –

·        Maintain consistent formatting in a document.

·        Makes formatting changes easily.

·        Makes formatting changes quickly.

6. What is the importance of the Styles and Formatting window?

Answer: The Style and Formatting window allow us to apply the different style on the selected object easily and quickly. It also allows to create the new style and load the existing styles from another file.

 7. How do you open the Styles and Formatting window in Writer?

Answer: Method to open the Styles and Formatting Window:-

·        Format -> Styles and Formatting

·        Styles and Formatting button on the Formatting toolbar

·        In Formatting Toolbar > Click on Apply Style > Select More

·        Press F11

8. How would you apply a style available in Styles and Formatting windows, onto a document object?

Answer: To apply a style available in Styles and Formatting windows, you can do –

·        (a) Select the object (paragraph/characters/frames) on which you want to apply the style.

·        (b) Double-click on the style name which is to be applied to it, in the style and formatting window.

9. What is the utility of Fill Format mode?

 Answer: Fill Format mode is useful in situations when you want to apply the same style to multiple scattered objects in the document.

 10. Write steps to create and update a new style from a selection.

Answer: Steps to create and update a new style from a selection

·        Type your text and do appropriate formatting using the formatting toolbar.

·        Select the Formatted Text/Paragraph

·        Open Styles and Formatting window

·        Select the type of style to create (paragraph, character, etc.)

·        From New Style dropdown -> Select New Style from Selection

11. Write steps to create a new style using drag and drop.

Answer: Steps to create a new style using drag and drop: –

·        Open Styles and Formatting window

·        Select the type of style to create (paragraph, character, etc.)

·        Select the Formatted object and drag it to the Styles and Formatting window.

·        It will open the Create style dialog. In it, type a name for the new style.

·        Click Ok to save the new style.

12. Write steps to load styles from an existing file.

Answer: To copy / load the styles from another document,

·        Select command Styles and Formatting window -> New Style dropdown -> Load Style, and

·        then select the required document from From File window.