Unit 1: Digital Documentation (Advanced) using

LibreOffice Writer

Chapter 1. Introduction to Styles

1. What are Styles? What are the advantages of

using styles?

Answer – Styles are pre-defined formatting attributes in digital

document processing that can be used to apply consistent
formatting to text and other elements. The advantages of using
styles include –

 Consistency throughout the document

 Efficiency in formatting the document
 Flexibility in making changes to the document
 Improved accessibility for users with assistive
technologies.
2. What are the different categories of style in
LibreOffice writer document?

The writer provides six style categories, which are as follows:

 Page: – documenAll in Writer are based on pages; page

style is used to define basic page layout, like page size, its
margin, placement of header and footer, footnote, borders,
and background.
 Paragraph: A paragraph begins and ends by pressing the
Enter key. Paragraph formatting includes tab stops, text
alignment, line spacing, and borders.
 Character – Character styling is used to work on blocks of
letters and words in the paragraph instead of the whole
paragraph. Character styles allow changing the text color,
text size, highlighting text, etc.
 Frame—Frame allows the document to be organized in
sections, so that each section of the page can have a
different appearance. Frame size includes size, position,
border, and how the text is placed around the picture.
  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 specifying
numeric format.
 Table – Style category allows you to format a table by
adding borders, using different text or border colors,
aligning text inside the table, and having different patterns
or text colors.
3. What is the Fill Format option in LibreOffice
Writer?

Answer – To apply a style to words present at different

locations in the document, you will have to go to each word
separately and apply it to each word. Writer provides a
convenient way of doing it through the Fill Format option.

4. How will you load styles from a template?

Answer – You can copy styles by loading them from a template

or another document, for example:

1. Step 1: In the style menu, click on Load Style.

2. Step 2: Select the document that you want to load on the
document.
3. Step 3: Click OK to copy the style.
5. How can you modify the style?

Answer – Styles can be changed in a variety of ways in

OpenOffice.org.

 Load or copy styles from another document or template

 Update a style from a selection
6. How can we create our own styles?

Answer – There are two different ways to create a style –

 Creating a new style from a selection – You can copy a

new style from an existing style. This new style will only be
applied to this document and will not be saved in the
template.
 Dragging And Dropping to Create a Style – You can
drag and drop a text selection into the Styles and
Formatting window to create a new style.
Chapter 2. Working with Images

7. List any three methods of inserting images in

a text document.

Answer – The three methods for inserting images in digital

documents are

 Inserting Image using Drag and Drop option

 Inserting an image using the Copy and Paste method
 Inserting an image by linking
8. What is the purpose of inserting an image by
linking?

Answer – If multiple copies of the same image are required to

be inserted in the document, it is beneficial to save the link of
the image instead of inserting the image. Inserting a link stores
its reference instead of the image itself, thereby reducing the
size of the document, because the actual image is saved only
once as a separate file along with the document.

9. Explain any five graphic filters.

Answer – The following are five graphic filters:

 Invert – Changing the color in the color image and giving

brightness in the grayscale image.
 Solarization – Increasing the effects of excessive light in
a photograph.
 Posterize – Reduces the number of colors in a picture to
make it look like a painting.
 Charcoal – The image is displayed as a charcoal sketch.
 Mosaic – Combines groupings of pixels into a single-color
area.
10. What do you mean by resizing an image in
LibreOffice Writer?

Answer – Resizing is the process of reducing or enlarging the

size of the image. This can be done in various ways. A quick
and easy way to resize an image is by dragging the image’s
sizing handles.

11. Explain Image Cropping

Answer – Image cropping is the process of removing unwanted

parts of an image by selecting and keeping a specific portion of
the image while discarding the rest.

The following parameters can be controlled on the Crop

page:

1. Keep scale – When Keep scale is chosen (the default),

cropping the image has no effect on the image’s scale.
2. Keep image size – Cropping creates enlargement (for
positive cropping values), shrinking (for negative cropping
values), or distortion of the image when Keep image size
is selected, so the image size remains constant.
12. What is grouping objects in LibreOffice
Writer?

Answer – LibreOffice Writer allows grouping these different

shapes to behave as a single entity without affecting their size
and position. Once grouped, all shapes belonging to that group
become its members, and a change applied to one member
works on all.

13. What is arrangement in LibreOffice Writer?

Answer – In overlapping objects, arrangement determines the

position of the current drawing with respect to other drawings or
text. Like, Bring to Front, Send to Back, Forward One, and
Back One.
14. What is anchoring in LibreOffice Writer?

Answer – Anchoring helps to attach or link an object to a

specific position in the document. It acts as a reference point
for an image or drawing. Anchoring allows an image to retain its
position to a page, paragraph, character, or frame.

15. What is alignment in LibreOffice Writer?

Answer – It allows the vertical or horizontal placement of the

image with respect to its anchor. An image can be aligned in six
different styles—3 horizontal and 3 verticals.

16. What is text wrapping in LibreOffice Writer?

Answer- It allows the placement of an image in relation to text.

Text wrapping tools are available under the Drawing Object
Properties Toolbar. There are six wrapping options, namely
Wrap Off, Page Wrap, Optimal Page Wrap, Wrap Left, Wrap
Right, and Wrap Through.

Chapter 3. Advanced Features of Writer

17. What do you mean by table of content?

Answer – Table of Contents allows you to insert an automated

table of contents in a document. The entries or contents of this
table are automatically taken from the headings and
subheadings of the document. Also, these contents are
hyperlinked in the table.

Many of the elements are used in the table of content.

 E# – It indicates chapter number

 E – It represents the entry text.
 T – It represents tab stop
 LS – It represents the start of a hyperlink.
 LE – It represents the end of a hyperlink.
18. What do you mean by Hierarchy of Headings
in ToC?

Answer – LibreOffice Writer supports up to 10 levels of

headings, H1 to H10. These headings are applied to the
headings of the document and help to create a table of content
automatically.

19. What are templates? What are the

advantages of using templates?

Answer – A template is a preset layout that helps to create

professional and/or formal documents easily; using a template,
you can use it to make a similar type of document. Templates
can contain text, graphics, style, and design.

Advantages of templates are:

 Document creation is made easier with templates.

 It saves time to give style in a document.
 The use of templates helps to keep the audience’s
interest.
20. What is track change in LibreOffice Writer?

Answer – Track Changes feature of Writer offers an alternative

method to keep a record of all the changes made in the original
document. All the changes that are recorded can be either
accepted or rejected by the original author.

21. What is comparing documents in LibreOffice

Writer?

Answer – LibreOffice Writer allows you to compare the original

document with the reviewed document and then choose the
option that suits you best