What are Styles?
Styles are combinations of formatting characteristics that you can apply to text to quickly change
its appearance. For example, applying the Heading 1 style might make text bold, Arial, and 16
point, and applying the Heading 2 style makes text bold, italic, Arial, and 14 point.
Style Categories
Writer provides six Style categories, which are as follows:
(a) Page – all documents in Writer are based on pages, hence for formatting them, Page Style is
used. It defines basic page layout like page size, its margin, placement of header and footer, etc.
Writer uses its built-in Default page style.
(b) Paragraph – after deciding on a page format, next is the document content, which is organized
in paragraphs. A paragraph begins and ends by pressing Enter key. Paragraph formatting
includes tab stops, text alignment, line spacing and borders. Usually, it also includes Character
styling attributes.
(c) Character – this styling is used to work on block of letters, i.e. word(s) in the paragraph instead
of the whole paragraph. Character styles allow changing the text colour, text size, highlighting text
and emphasizing it.
(d) Frame – using frames, a document can be organised in sections, so that each section
of the page can have a different appearance. Frames are like containers, which can hold text,
graphics and lists. Therefore, applying Frame Styles allows to format a frame by specifying its
size, position, border and how the text is placed around the picture.
(e) List – to style lists in a document, the Writer provides a separate category. It can be used to
style lists by putting numbering or bullets of a different kind or specify numeric format.
(f) Table – using tables, a large amount of information can be organized and presented
effectively. Table Style category allows to format a table by adding borders, using different text
or border colour(s), aligning text inside the table, having different patterns or text colour.
There are many predefined Styles in Writer, which can be accessed by using the following methods:
(i) Using Style option from Menu Bar
(ii) Using Style Drop Down list box, from the Toolbar.
(iii) Using Sidebar Menu. On the Sidebar.
(iv) Using keyboard shortcut — F11 function
Fill Format
To apply a style on words present at different locations in the document, you will have to go to each
word separately and apply it on each word. Writer provides a convenient way of doing it through Fill
Format option. It is the second icon from right on the Style menu. This method 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, paragraphs or characters.
Creating and Updating a New Style
(a) From Selection – last button in Style menu, is Styles action button is used to create a new
style or modify an existing style. It can also be used to load a style defined in document or
template, in the list. Let us learn how to create a new style; which is the first function in the
drop down list of action button
Ans d
(i) When you apply a ________________, you apply a group of formatting effects together in one
single step.
(a) effect (b) template (c) style (d) format Ans.
(c) style
(ii) Select ____________________> Track changes > Record from the menu bar. Thereafter, every
change you record on the spreadsheet will have a red border around it. (1)
(a) File (b) Edit (c) Format (d) Layout Ans.
(b) Edit
(iii) What dialog box opens on choosing File > Templates > Manage Templates in Writer?
(a) The File dialog box (b) The Manage Templates dialog box
(c) The Templates dialog box (d) The Record Template dialog box
Ans. (c) The Templates dialog box
(iv) Which tab is used to create Table of Contents in a document?
(a) File tab (b) Format tab (c) Insert tab (d) Styles tab
Ans. (c) Insert tab
(v) To delete a template, ______ on a template in the Templates window and select delete.
(a) Right-click (b) Double-click (c) Left-click (d) None of these
Ans. (a) Right-click
