Chapter-1
Introduction to Styles using LibreOffice Writer
Q1. What do you understand by styles in LibreOffice writer document?
Ans. A style is a set of formats that you can apply to selected pages, text in your document to
quickly change their appearance.
Q2. Write advantages of using Style over manual formatting, for designing a document.
Ans. Advantages of using Style are :
1. Styles help us to apply consistent formatting to the documents.
2. Style make the major formatting changes simple.
3. Using styles we can easily change the existing format.
Q3. What are the different categories of style in LibreOffice writer document?
Ans. Different categories of style in LibreOffice writer document are:
1. Page
2. Paragraph
3. Character
4. Frame
5. List
6. Table
Q4. Write down the steps to update a style.
Ans. Steps to update a style are
1. Select the page/paragraph to be modified.
2. Format the selected portion as per the requirement.
3. Go to Style menu, and click on the button to update.
4. Using Style Action button, click on Updated Selected Style.
Q5. What do you understand by custom styles in LibreOffice writer?
Ans. Custom Style means user defined style. When existing styles specified by Writer do not match
our requirement, then a user can create Custom Style. There are two ways to create a custom style
1. From Selection
2. Using drag and drop
Q7. Give two examples, where instead of Style, using manual formatting will be beneficial.
Ans. Manual formatting is also called direct formatting. It is beneficial when
1. Only a small part of document needs to be formatted.
2. We are using character styles which allow us to change the appearance of a part of a
paragraph without affecting the other part.
Q8. Give one situation, in which you will prefer to use Fill Format for styling your document.
Ans. Fill Format is useful when a same style is to be applied at many places scattered in the
document. Fill Format can be used to style scattered – pages, frames, tables, lists etc.
Q9. Write steps to load style(s) from a template
Ans. Steps to load style(s) from a template are:
1. Click on the Load Styles from the Style menu.
2. Load Styles dialog box open and choose the category of your document.
3. Find and select the desired template to copy styles from.
4. Also select the options for the types of styles to be copied, such as Paragraph and
Character styles, Frame, Page or List.
5. Click OK button
Chapter-2
Working with Images
Q1. What is a digital image? How can you create one?
Ans. A picture is a digital image, which is representation of image in finite set of digital values 0 or
1, known as pixels. These are stored in various types of graphics files with the file extension, such
as GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, etc.
Digital images can be created using a digital camera, scanner etc. For example, you can take a
photo with a digital camera, and transfer it in a computer to use as an image.
Q2. Write steps to insert an image from the gallery using Drag and Drop method.
Ans. Steps to insert an image from the gallery using Drag and Drop method are as follows:
1. Open the document to insert an image.
2. Open a file browser window (Win+E) and select the image file to be inserted.
3. Drag the image into the document and drop it, where you want it to appear in the
document.
Q3. How is resizing of image different from cropping it?
Ans. Resizing is the process of reducing or enlarging the size of the image while cropping cuts off or
remove the non-desirable part of the image.
Working with Images Question Answers
Q4. What are the tools available in drawing toolbar? Describe any five tools.
Ans. There are many tools available in drawing toolbar. Five of them are explained below
1. Basic Shapes: This tool help us to draw the square, rectangle, triangle etc.
2. Symbol Shapes: This tool help us to draw cloud, moon or smiley face etc.
3. Stars and Banners: This tool help us to draw various types of stars like four point star, five point
stars etc.
4. Line and Arrows: This tool help us to draw Line ends with arrow, Line with arrow/circle, Line
with arrow/square. etc.
5. Insert line: This tool help us to draw a straight line by holding shift key and drag.
Q5. How is linking of an image different from embedding? Give a situation in which you would prefer
to link an image.
Ans. Difference between linking and embedding of image
Linking Embedding
The image isn’t actually included in the The image becomes the part of the
document document
Changes in the original image file does not
Changes in the original image file will also
affect the embedded image in the
affect the linked image in the document.
document.
Does not increases the size of the
Increases the size of the document
document
We prefer to link an image when the size of the image is too large.
Q6. Write steps to change properties for drawing objects.
Ans. Properties of the object can be modified or edited, either at the time of its creation, i.e.
before you start drawing them or after its creation.
To set the properties before drawing the object, follow the given steps.
1. Select the object from the Drawing toolbar.
2. Change the various properties of object from Drawing Object Properties Toolbar like fill
color, line style etc.
3. Draw the selected object on the document.
To set the properties after drawing the object, follow the given steps
1. Select the object in the document whose properties are to be modified.
2. Change the various properties of object like fill color, line style etc. from Drawing Object
Properties Toolbar.
Q7. 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, or 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.
Q8. Describe any two tools from Drawing Object Properties toolbar.
Ans. Two tools from Drawing Object Properties toolbar.
1. Line Color: This tool allows us to select the color of the line of selected drawing object.
2. Line Thickness: This tool allows us to select the thickness for the line of a selected drawing
object
Q9. Write steps to insert an image in a basic drawing shape.
Ans. Steps to insert an image in a basic drawing shape are:
1. Place the cursor in the document where you want the drawing to be placed.
2. Select any basic shape from the Drawing toolbar.
3. Click-and-drag to create the drawing object in the document.
4. Release the mouse button to finish drawing.
Q10. Write factors controlling positioning of an image in a document.
Ans. Positioning of an image is controlled by four settings.
1. Arrangement
2. Anchoring
3. Alignment
4. Text Wrapping
1. Arrangement: It determines the position of the current drawing with respect to other drawings
or text.
2. Anchoring: It acts as a reference point for image or drawing. Anchoring allows an image to retain
its position to a page, paragraph, character or frame.
3. Alignment: It allows the vertical or horizontal placement of the image with respect to its anchor.
4. Text Wrapping: It allows the placement of image in relation to text
Chapter 3
Advanced Features of Writer
Q1. What is the need of table of contents?
Ans. ToC provides a list of headings and subheadings along with page numbers. These contents are
hyperlinked in the table. So by clicking on any topic in the table of contents, we can navigate
directly to the selected topic.
Q2. What will happen if the ‘Protected Against Manual Changes’ option is not selected in the Type
tab of Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography dialog box?
Ans. If the ‘Protected Against Manual Changes’ option is not selected, then the contents of ToC can
be changed directly on the document page, just like any other text on the document. This option
protects the ToC from any accidental change.
Q3. Name the five tabs present in the Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography dialog box.
Ans. Five tabs present in the Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography dialog box are:
1. Type
2. Entries
3. Styles
4. Columns
5. Background
Q4. What do you mean by customization of ToC?
Ans. Customization of ToC means to modify the existing ToC according to our requirement like
1. We can change the Title of the ToC
2. We can insert/change Colour or Image as background of ToC.
3. We can change the Style of ToC.
All of the above and other customization can be done by right click on ToC and click Edit Index
option from the drop down menu.
Q5. How headings and sub-headings of a document differentiated in ToC?
Ans. In LibreOffice, headings and sub-headings in a Table of Contents (ToC) are differentiated based
on the hierarchy of headings applied to the document’s sections.
LibreOffice Writer supports up to 10 levels of headings H1 to H10. These headings are applied to
the headings of the document.
Once the desired heading styles are applied in the document, the same hierarchy will be reflected
in the table of contents also.
Q6. Define a template.
Ans. A template is a preset layout that helps to create professional and/or formal documents
easily. We can add content and formatting styles to a template according to our needs.
Q7. Give any one advantage of using a template for your document.
Ans. Advantages of template are:
1. Templates help in saving time.
2. Templates help in simplifying the creation of document.
Q8. What is the difference between importing and exporting a
template?
Ans. Importing a Template: It means to add a new template to the Template Manager from your
computer.
Exporting a Template: It means to save the copy of an existing template from the Template
Manager to a folder on your computer.
Q9. Name any two categories of templates.
Ans. Two categories of templates are: (Write any two)
1. Business Correspondence
2. Personal Correspondence and Documents
3. Drawings
4. Presentations
Q10. When is exporting of templates useful? Give any one
reason.
Ans. Exporting the template is a useful feature for sharing the templates with multiple users. For
example, if you’ve created a template for school question paper that includes your school’s logo,
exporting it allows you to distribute this template to all the teachers so that all the question paper
created by them have a uniform appearance and structure, which ensures saving time on
formatting for each new document
Q11. What is the difference between Accept Track Change and
Accept All Tracked Changes buttons?
Ans. Accept Track Change: This button is used to accept a single change made in the document.
Accept All Tracked Changes: This button allows you to accept all changes that have been tracked in
the document at once
Q12. How do we prepare a document for review?
Ans. We can prepare a document for review by using Track Changes feature. When a document is
shared with one or more users for review or editing purposes, we should make sure that the
changes made should be recorded. (For that, select Edit > Track Changes > Record option). This will
ensure that the original author of the document has the option to accept or reject the changes
made.