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Digital Documentation Class 10 Notes

Styles help ensure consistency in documents and make large formatting changes easy. There are different types of styles like page, paragraph, character, frame, numbered, cell, graphics and presentation styles. Templates allow reusing text while maintaining consistent look and feel. They contain predefined styles, text, graphics and design elements. Mail merge allows personalizing a message and sending it to many recipients simultaneously making it appear personalized for each. It saves time over sending individual messages.

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Digital Documentation Class 10 Notes

Styles help ensure consistency in documents and make large formatting changes easy. There are different types of styles like page, paragraph, character, frame, numbered, cell, graphics and presentation styles. Templates allow reusing text while maintaining consistent look and feel. They contain predefined styles, text, graphics and design elements. Mail merge allows personalizing a message and sending it to many recipients simultaneously making it appear personalized for each. It saves time over sending individual messages.

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Digital Documentation Class 10 Notes

Session 1: Create and Apply styles in the


document
1. What are Styles ?. What are the advantages of using styles.

Answer – A style is a collection of formats that you can use to easily
change the appearance of chosen pages, text, frames, and other
elements in your document.
Advantages:
Styles help to ensure that a document is uniform.
They also make it simple to make large formatting modifications.

Different types of styles:


a. Page Styles – Margin, headers and footers, borders, and
backgrounds are all examples of page styles.

b. Paragraph Styles – Paragraph styles can contain character


formatting and affect all aspects of a paragraph’s look, such as text
alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders.

c. Character Styles – Character styles impact the font and size of


selected text within a paragraph, as well as bold and italic formats.

d. Frame Styles – Frame styles, such as wrapping type, borders,


backgrounds, and columns.

e. Numbered Styles – Numbered Style include Alignment,


Numbering, bullet characters.
f. Cell Styles – Fonts, alignment, borders, background, number
formats, and cell protection are all included in cell styles.

g. Graphics Styles – Line, area, transparency, shadowing, font,


connectors, dimensioning, and other characteristics are included in
graphic styles in drawings and presentations.

h. Presentation Styles – Font, indents, spacing, alignment, and tab


characteristics are all included in presentation styles.

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2. What is the best way to load styles from a template or another
document?

Answer –
You can copy styles by loading them from a template or another
document, for example:

1. Open the document into which you wish to paste the styles.

2. In the Styles and Formatting window, click on Load Styles after long-
clicking on the arrow next to the New Style from Selection symbol.

3. Locate and choose the template you wish to copy styles from in the
Load Styles window

4. Choose the style categories you want to copy. If you want the
copied styles to overwrite any styles with the same names in the
document you’re putting them into, select Overwrite.

5. To copy styles from another document, click the From File button to
bring up a box where you may choose the required file.
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3. 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

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4. 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.

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Session 2: Insert and use images


5. Explain any five Graphic filters.

Answer – The following are four graphic filters:


a. Invert – Changing the color in the color image, and giving
brightness in grayscale image.
b. Solarization – Increasing the effects of excessive light in a
photograph.
c. Posterize – Reduces the number of colours in a picture to make it
look like a painting.
d. Charcoal – The image is displayed as a charcoal sketch.
e. Mosaic – Combines groupings of pixels into a single colour area.

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6. Explain Image Cropping

Answer – Right-click the image and choose Picture from the pop-up
menu to begin cropping it. Select the Crop page in the Picture
dialogue box.

The following parameters can be controlled on the Crop page:

Keep scale / Keep image size –

a. When Keep scale is chosen (the default), cropping the image has no
effect on the image’s scale.

b. 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.

Left, Right, Top, and Bottom –

You can crop the image using the dialog box, you can enter left, right,
top and bottom margins to crop the image.

a. Keep scale – using this option you can crop the image without
changing the size of the image.
b. Keep image size – Without changing the height and width of the
image you can crop the image using keep image size.

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7. List any three methods of inserting images in a text document.

Answer – The three methods for inserting images in digital


documents are –
Drag and Drop
Inserting image from clipboard
Insert image from Scanner

8. What do you understand by the terms:


a. Text Wrapping
b. Anchoring

Answer –
a. Text Wrapping – Text wrapping describes the relationship between
graphics and the surrounding text, which may wrap around the
graphic on one or both sides, be overprinted behind or in front of the
graphic, or be overprinted behind or in front of the graphic.
b. Anchoring – The graphics’ reference point is referred to as IT. This
point could represent the object’s location on the page or in the
frame. An anchor point is always present in an image.

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Session 3: Create and use template


9 What are templates? What are the advantages of using
templates?
Answer – A template is a type of document that you can use to make
a similar type of document. Templates can contain text, graphics, style,
design.

Advantage of template are –


a. Document creation is made easier with templates.
b. It save time to giving style in document
c. The use of templates helps to keep the audience’s interest.

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10. What is the difference between styles and templates?

Answer –
a. Style – Styles ensure that your formatting is consistent throughout
a document.

b. Template – Templates allow you to reuse text and maintain a


consistent look and feel across many projects.

11. Explain different ways of creating a template.

Answer – There are two ways to create templates in a document.

Creating a template from a document –


1. Create or edit a new or existing document of the type you wish to
use as a template.
2. Fill in the blanks with the content and styles you desire.
3. Select File > Templates > Save from the main menu.

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Creating a template using a wizard –
Wizards can be used to construct letter, fax, agenda, presentation, and
Web page templates. The Fax Wizard, for example, walks you through
the following options:
1. Fax machine type (business or personal)
2. Document components such as the date, topic line (for business
faxes), salutation, and closing
3. Information about the sender and receiver options (business fax)
4. Inclusion of text in the footer (business fax)

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Session 4: Create and customize table of


contents
12. What do you mean by table of content?

Answer – The table of contents tool in Writer allows you to create an


automated table of contents from your document’s headings.

Many of the elements are used in table of content –

a. E# – It indicate chapter number


b. E – It represents the entry text
c. T – It represents tab stop
d. LS – It represents start of a hyperlink
e. LE – It represents End of a hyperlink

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Session 5: Implement Mail Merge


13. Explain Mail Merge.

Answer – A mail merge is a method of personalizing a message


you’ve written and sending it to a large group of people, giving the
impression that you prepared the letter specifically for them.

14. What are the advantages of Mail Merge?

Answer – Advantages of mail merge are –


a. It’s simple to send the same mail to a big group of recipients using
the Mail Merge tool.
b. We don’t have to type each recipient’s name separately in each
letter when we use Mail Merge.
c. It’s one of the most efficient ways to mass-produce hundreds of
personalized letters in a short amount of time.
d. It is simple to amend the letter because any change made in the
main letter will be reflected in all other recipients’ letters.

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15. Give examples of databases in which the Data Source can be
created.

Answer – Any database that supports Open Database Connectivity


(ODBC) can be utilized as a data source. They can also be made in
spreadsheets using Excel, or other similar software.
For example –
a. Spreadsheet
b. Text file
c. CSV file
d. OpenOffice base or Access

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