Libre Office Writer Lesson 1

1. Introducing LibreOffice LibreOffice 3.4

2. Lesson 1 Outline What is Writer? Creating a new document. Entering Text. Printing and emailing. Saving a document.

3. What is Writer?

4. Introduction to Writer Text entry, editing, and formatting. Page-layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables . Export to PDF, including bookmarks . Templates and styles. Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects. Built-in drawing tools. Tables of data. Mail merge. Tables of contents, indexes, and bibliographies. Master documents, to group a collection of shorter documents into a single long document. Fields and forms. Database integration, including a bibliography database. And much, much more!

5. Parts of the Writer Window

6. Creating a new document

7. Starting a new document From the Quickstarter , which is found in Windows, some Linux distributions, and (in a slightly different form) in Mac OS X. The Quickstarter is an icon that is placed in the system tray or the dock during system startup. It indicates that LibreOffice has been loaded and is ready to use.

8. Starting a new document

9. Starting a new document from an opened document

10. Starting a new document The blinking insertion point shows where the next character you type will appear. When the insertion point reaches the right margin, the word you are typing moves on to the next line.

11. Entering Text

12. Selecting items In writer you can select text that is not consecutive. To do this….. Select the first piece of text. Hold down the Ctrl key and use the mouse to select the next piece of text. Now you can work with the selected text (copy it, delete it, change the style, or whatever).

13. Cutting, copying, and pasting text To move (cut and paste) selected text using the mouse, drag it to the new location and release it. To copy selected text, hold down the Ctrl key while dragging. The text retains the formatting it had before dragging. When you paste text, the result depends on the source of the text and how you paste it. If you click on the Paste icon, any formatting the text has.

14. Find and replace Finding and replacing text and formatting Find and replace words and phrases Use wildcards and regular expressions to fine-tune a search Find and replace specific formatting Find and replace paragraph styles

15. Find and replace To use the Find & Replace dialog: Type the text you want to find in the Search for box. To replace the text with different text, type the new text in the Replace with box. You can select various options such as matching the case, matching whole words only, or doing a search for similar words. When you have set up your search, click Find . To replace the found text, click Replace .

16. Undoing and redoing changes When a document is open, you can undo the most recent change by pressing Ctrl+Z , or clicking the Undo icon on the Standard toolbar, or choosing Edit > Undo from the menu bar. The Edit menu shows the latest changes that can be undone.

17. Checking spelling and grammar AutoSpellcheck checks each word as it is typed and displays a wavy red line under any misspelled words. When the word is corrected, the line disappears . To perform a separate spelling check on the document (or a text selection) click the Spelling and Grammar button. This checks the document or selection and opens the Spelling and Grammar dialog if any misspelled words are found.

18. Printing a Document To print a document the easiest way to print is by hitting the PRINT icon on the top left corner of the page. In addition to that, you can also control the printing of your documents. Here you can select how many pages to print or only certain pages to print.

19. Changing documents views, moving quickly through a document

20. Changing documents views

21. Moving quickly through a document Navigation toolbar Located on the bottom of the page. After selecting the navigation icon you will see the “navigator”

22. Saving a document To save a new document in Writer, do one of the following: Choose File > Save . Click the Save button on the main toolbar . Press Ctrl+S . Saving a document automatically You can choose to have Writer save your document automatically in a temporary file at regular intervals. Automatic saving, like manual saving, overwrites the last saved state of the target file. To set up automatic file saving: Select Tools > Options > Load/Save > General . Click on Save AutoRecovery information every and set the time interval. The default value is 15 minutes. Enter the value you want by typing it or by pressing the up or down arrow keys.

23. File types Document format File extension ODF Text *.odt ODF Text Template *.ott ODF Master Document *.odm HTML Document *.html HTML Document Template *.oth ODF Spreadsheet *.ods ODF Spreadsheet Template *.ots ODF Drawing *.odg ODF Drawing Template *.otg ODF Presentation *.odp ODF Presentation Template *.otp ODF Formula *.odf ODF Database *.odb LibreOffice Extension *. oxt

24. Password protection

25. Password protection Use File > Save As when saving the document On the Save As dialog box, select the Save with password option, and then click Save . The Set Password dialog box opens.

26. Password protection Click OK to save the file. If either pair of passwords do not match, you receive an error message. Close the message box to return to the Set Password dialog box and enter the password again.

27. Where to get help Help system LibreOffice comes with an extensive Help system. This is your first line of support for using LibreOffice . To display the full Help system, press F1 or select LibreOffice Help from the Help menu. In addition, you can choose whether to activate Tips, Extended tips, and the Help Agent (using Tools > Options > LibreOffice > General ). Free online support The LibreOffice community not only develops software, but provides free, volunteer-based support. See Table 1 and this web page: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ Users can get comprehensive online support from the community through mailing lists. Other websites run by users also offer free tips and tutorials. This forum provides community support for LibreOffice and other programs: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/