IX Unit 1 WS
IX Unit 1 WS
Q1. What are Styles ? What are the advantages of using 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.
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 makes major formatting changes simple.
Q2. Give any four styles supported by OpenOffice.
Ans. Four Styles supported by OpenOffice.org are.
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, and borders.
3. Character styles affect selected text within a paragraph, such as the
font and size of text, or bold and italic formats.
4. Numbering styles apply similar alignment, numbering or bullet.
Q3. 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.
Q4. What are the benefits and drawbacks of grouping drawing objects?
Ans: Benefits of grouping drawing objects are:
Grouping allows multiple shapes to be treated as a single entity and making it easier to
move, resize, apply changes simultaneously.
Drawbacks of grouping drawing objects are:
Making changes to a single part of a grouped object can be time consuming as they may
require ungrouping, modifying and then regrouping.
Q5. Explain Image Cropping.
Ans. When you are interested in a section of the image for the purpose
of your document, you may wish to crop (cut off) parts of it. Right click
on image and select Picture from the pop-up menu. In the Picture
dialog box, select the Crop page and select the part from left, right, top
and bottom which you want to remove.
Q6. List any three methods of inserting images in a text document.
Ans. Three methods of inserting images in a text document are :
Drag and Drop
Inserting An Image From The Clipboard
Inserting An Image Using A Scanner
Q7. What do you understand by the terms?
Ans. Positioning of a graphic is controlled by four settings:
Arrangement refers to the placement of a graphic on an imaginary vertical axis.
Arrangement controls how graphics are stacked upon each other or relative to the
text.
Alignment refers to the vertical or horizontal placement of a graphic in relation to
the chosen anchor point.
Anchoring refers to the reference point for the graphics. This point could be the
page, or frame where the object is, a paragraph, or even a character. An image
always has an anchor point.
Text wrapping refers to the relation of graphics to the surrounding text, which may
wrap around the graphic on one or both sides, be overprinted behind or in front of
the graphic, or treat the graphic as a separate paragraph or character.
8. Differentiate between Keep scale and Keep image size options while cropping an
image in a document.
Keep scale:
When Keep scale is selected (default), cropping the image does not change the scale
of the picture.
Keep image size:
When Keep image size is selected, cropping produces enlargement (for positive
cropping values), shrinking (for negative cropping values), or distortion of the image
so that the image size remains constant.
9. Explain any four Graphic filters.