Patrika FAQs

1. What is Patrika?
Patrika is a Windows based multi-lingual word processor.
2. What is the need of Patrika?
Windows based word processors are designed specifically for English like languages.
Whereas Patrika is a multilingual software for Indian languages. Even though you can type in Indian languages in the above software, you cannot use the commonly required facilities like Find/Replace, Insert Date & Time for Indian languages. Secondly, the price of this package is also affordable to the common user.
3. Can we send e-mails from Patrika?
Yes. A Patrika document can be sent as an attachment in six different formats: Patrika document, Rich Text format file, HTML file, ISCII file, Modular Editor file, Jpeg File or as a Bitmap File.
4. Is Language to Language Transliteration facility available in Patrika ?
Yes. You can transliterate text from one Indian language to another, Indian language to English diacritical and vice-versa.
5. Can we open multiple documents in Patrika?
Yes. Patrika is MDI(Multiple Document Interface) supported. You can open multiple files simultaneously in the application. .
6. Is mail merge facility available in Patrika?
Yes. You can mail merge data in Patrika. The data source file should be in DBF, EDB or DB format. Patrika accepts Smaranika File, ISCII data file or Shree-Lipi data file as the data source.
7. Can you import graphics in Patrika?
Yes. The graphic filter formats supported are Graphical Image File Format (GIFF), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Windows Bitmap (BMP), JPG and PCX.
8. Can you resize an imported graphic?
Yes. To resize an imported graphic
1) Select the graphic by clicking on it. A hair outline appears around the graphic.
2) To resize the graphic and keep its original proportion, drags a corner handle.
9. What character attributes is available in Patrika ?
The character attributes available are Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikeout, Superscript and Subscript.
10. Is text indenting possible in Patrika ?
Yes. You can set the left indent, right indent and first line indent. Left and right indents are measured from the left and right margins respectively. The first line indent is measured relative to the left indent.
11. If I want to insert multiple pages in the file simultaneously then what to do?
For this click on Insert Pages option from Page option you can insert the no of pages you want.
12. Are tab stops available in Patrika ?
Yes. Press Tab key to move the insertion point to the next tab stop in the current paragraph. The first line of text you type is aligned at the tab stop. You can use the ruler to set a tab stop at a particular position. You can align text at a tab stop to the left, right, centered or on a decimal point.
13. How to insert table in Patrika?
For inserting table in Patrika click on Insert table option from Table menu or click on Insert Table button on the toolbar. In second option by dragging the mouse you can set the number of rows and columns you want to insert in the file.
14. Can we insert bookmark in Patrika file?
Yes. Using bookmark option from Insert menu you can insert bookmark in the file.
15. Can we insert Page break in Patrika file?
Yes. Using page break option from Insert menu you can insert page break in the file.
16. Can we insert any symbol as a footnote in Patrika file?
Yes. Using Footnote option from Insert menu you can insert footnote. Here you have to select the symbol you want to insert as footnote.
17. There are many blank pages, which are in my file. How to remove them?
Using the Remove pages option from Page menu you set the range of pages you want to remove
18. If I want to change the table style then is there any such facility provided?
Yes. For that first you select the table whose style you want to change. Then by using the table style option from Table menu you can change the table style. There are more than 45 table styles, which are provided in Patrika.
19. I have opened multiple files and I want to see them simultaneously. What to do?
For viewing multiple files simultaneously click on Tiled option from Window menu. .
20. Can I create a bulleted list in Patrika ?
You can easily create a bulleted list in Patrika by selecting a list and then clicking on Bullets from Paragraph menu or by selecting the Bullets Page from Format option of Paragraph menu. Alternatively, you can select either of these options before you type a list. When you press ENTER to add the next list item, Patrika automatically inserts the next bullet. The new text you type is not formatted with bullets. To remove bullets from a list, select the list and in the Bullets option set the 'Choose Bullet' option to none.
21. Does Patrika allow the user to create Tables?
Yes.
22. Is there any way to speed up typing of long phrases ?
Yes. You can speed up typing of long phrases using the keyboard shortcuts options from the Tools Menu or by pressing Ctrl + Alt + K..
23. Can we open .doc file in Patrika?
Using import option or directly selecting the particular file type you can open files of different type like word files, html files etc.
24. Can we save Patrika file in .doc format?
Using export option or directly selecting the particular file type using Save as option you can save the file in particular format like .doc, .rtf etc,
25. For inserting a symbol I used key sequence but it didn’t work. So how to use it ?
To work with this key sequence you have to work with the keys from Numpad
26. What features are provided in imported doc files?
Import of doc files has following features
27. What features are provided in export of Patrika files?
Export To doc files has following features:
28. What to do if bullets in the exported Patrika file are displaying all zeroes?
Press Enter key at any position in the exported file opened in word. Bullets will be shown properly.
29. Using background option from Format menu I changed the background but I could not see the changed background in the printout?
Yes. The changed background will not be printed in the printout but otherwise when you will open
the file you can see the changed background.
30. Sometimes we are unable to see header footers in exported doc file opened in word? What to do in such situation?
If a file with odd / even / first page header footers is exported to doc then to see the header footers
in word,
1) In file menu click on page setup.
2) In layout tab check the respective option in header footers section.
i.e.
1. different odd and even
2. Different first page
It will show you the respective header footers.