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1. Name different types of software that help you prepare a document.
2. How to open a G Edit window?
Applications → Accessories → G Edit.
3. How to open Open Office Writer?
Application → Office → OpenOffice writer
4. What is Formatting?
Formatting means to make the typed text more beautiful and more attractive, formatting refers to give font colour, font size, line spacing, indentation etc.
♦ Highlight the text you would like to format.
♦ Choose Formatting options from the toolbar, such as bold, alignment, line spacing, font color, etc.
5. How to make a Paragraph look beautiful?
To make the paragraph look beautiful one has to set space between the lines, between the paragraphs, borders and background colour.
To modify a paragraph select that paragraph and click on the Paragraph tab in Formatting menu.
6. Explain the use of Background tab.
The Background tab is used to change the background colour of the paragraph. To change the background colour select the paragraph click on the format menu form there background colour option and click a colour from the list.
7. What is Indent spacing?
Indent spacing refers to spacing between lines and paragraphs. Spacing Above paragraph means to give space above the selected paragraph, Below paragraph means to give space below the selected paragraph.
8. How to add pages in the Open office writer?
New pages can be easily added in open office writer file. The cursor automatically moves the next page after the completion of the existing page. If not, bring the cursor at the end of the completed page and proceed with the manual Break in the Insert menu to add more pages.
9. What is Drop Cap?
A drop cap is the first character of a document or paper that is the largest letter of that page and takes up several lines or sentences of the first paragraph.
To insert the drop cap, select the first letter or the first word of the paragraph. Then open the Format menu and make Paragraph click on the item. In the dialog box that appears check the option "Display drop cap".
10. What is Computer dictionary?
A dictionary is included in the It@schoolgnulinux of the computer. This computer dictionary computers each typed world with the similar words in the dictionary and a red underline appears if there is an error. The red line also appears under the words that are not in the computer dictionary. We can also included words in to the dictionary if needed.
11. How to insert a picture in a document?
Insert → Menu → Picture form
File is the pattern for navigation.
12. Prepare an article about WILLIAM SHAKESPHERE including his picture.
13. Prepare a profile about N.Kumaran Asan with picture?
14. How to insert a table in writer?
To insert a new table, position the cursor where you want the table to appear,
Click the Insert Table in Table Menu and a window opens. Click Ok button after adding required number of columns and rows.
15. How to make tables attractive?
There are various techniques to make the table attractive. We can give borders to the table and also give background colour to the table. We can change the dimension of the columns and change the font size, style etc and give colours to the font.
16. Write the steps for Numbering the magazine pages.
For numbering a page, at first one has to add a Header or Footer to the page. For this click the Header/Footer in the Insert Menu. Drag the mouse pointer to the area where the number has to be placed and click Insert Field Page number. Notice the changes occurred in the selected position. All pages can thus be numbered.
