What is Style ?
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.
Style is a set of formats commands that can be applied as a single unit.
Style Change the appearance of that part.
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.
Ans. Four types of styles supported by OpenOffice.org
1. Paragraph Style 2. Page Style 3. Character Style
4. List Style 5. Frame Style
Explain page, paragraph and character styles ?
1) Page styles include margins, headers and footers, borders and backgrounds.
2) Paragraph styles control all aspects of a paragraph’s appearance, such as text alignment, tab stops, line spacing etc.
3) Character styles affect selected text within a paragraph, such as the font and size of text, or bold and italic formats.
How we can open styles and formatting window ?
Select Styles and formatting window from format menu.
or
Press short cut key F11
What is the use of Fill Handle Mode ?
Fill format mode is used to apply a style to many different areas quickly without having
to go back to the Styles and Formatting window and double-click every time.
This method is quite useful when you need to format many scattered paragraphs, cells, or other items with the same style.
Step to apply style using File Handle Mode
1)Open the Styles and Formatting window and select the style you want to apply.
2) Click the Fill Format mode icon
3) To apply a paragraph, page, or frame style, hover the mouse over the paragraph, page, or frame and click. To apply a character style, hold down the mouse button
while selecting the characters, clicking on a word applies the character style for that word. Repeat step 3 until you made all the changes for that style.
4) To quit Fill Format mode, click the Fill Format mode icon again or press the Esc
key. An important point to note here is that when this mode is active, a right-click
anywhere in the document undoes the last Fill Format action. Be careful not to
accidentally right click and thus undo actions you want to keep.
Q. To quit Fill Format mode press the ____________ key. [Esc key ].[
Q. When Fill Format mode is active, _____ click undo last Fill Format action [Right click ]
Q. Fill Format mode help to apply styles to many different areas quickly.(T/F)
a. True b. False
Ans. a. True
Q. What are the two ways to create new(Custom) styles ?
We can create New Styles in two ways
1) New style from a selection
2) Dragging And Drop method
Q How we can create new style using "New Style from a selection" method ?
a) Open the Styles and Formatting window and choose the type of style you want to create.
b) In the document, select the item you want to save as a style.
c) Click on the New Style from Selection icon from the Styles and Formatting window.
d) Type a name for the new style and Click OK to save the new style.
Q. How we can add new style using "Dragging And Drop" method ?
Select some text and drag it to the Styles and Formatting window. If Paragraph Styles are active, the paragraph style will be added to the list. If Character Styles are active, the character style will be added to the list.
Q. how we can load new styles from another document or Template ?
Loading Styles From A Template Or Document :
1. Open the document you want to copy styles into.
2. In the Styles and Formatting window, long-click on the arrow next to the New Style from Selection icon, and then click on Load Styles.
3. Load style dialog box appears.
4. Select the categories of styles to be copied.
5. Click OK.
Q. What are different ways to modify Styles ?
There are two ways to modify styles
• Updating a style from a selection
• Load or copy styles from another document or template
MCQ 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
Q11. We can create style by :
a. New Style from a selection
b. Dragging and Dropping
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
Ans. c. Both of the above
Q12. We can create new styles by dragging selected text into Styles and Formatting Window.(T/F)
a. True b. False
Ans. a. True
Q13. We can modify the predefined styles also?(T/F)
a. True b. False
Ans. a. True
Q14. We can not copy the styles from other document. (T/F)
a. True b. False
Ans. b. False