Self-Publishing with LibreOffice 6 Writer

Self-publishing

using

LibreOffice Writer 6

How to use free software to write,

design, and create ebooks and

PDFs for print-on-demand books

Jean Hollis Weber

Friends of OpenDocument, Inc.

Australia

Copyright ? 2019 Jean Hollis Weber

This book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, v 4.0

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All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners.

Published by:

Friends of OpenDocument Inc.

544/60 Beck Drive North

Condon, QLD 4915

Australia

This book was created using free software: LibreOffice Writer 6.3 (word processing,

page layout, and PDF production), GIMP 2.10 (image editing), and Calibre 4.00

(ebook creation). These programs are available for Windows, GNU/Linux, and

macOS.

Cover photograph by Jean Hollis Weber: Agile wallaby, Australia.

ISBN 978-1-921320-56-9

Contents

Preface.........................................................10

Why use LibreOffice?.................................................................10

What do you need to do first?.....................................................11

Using LibreOffice on a Mac........................................................11

What you see may be different...................................................12

Terminology...............................................................................12

For more on self-publishing.......................................................12

Acknowledgments......................................................................13

Part 1: Essentials..........................................15

1

Introduction to Writer..................................17

The Writer workspace................................................................17

Title bar and Menu bar...........................................................17

Sidebar....................................................................................18

Toolbars..................................................................................19

Customizing toolbars.............................................................20

Right-click (context) menus..................................................20

Status bar................................................................................21

Changing document views.........................................................23

Using the Navigator...................................................................24

Move quickly through a document.........................................25

Use the Navigation toolbar.....................................................25

Set reminders.........................................................................26

Creating a new document..........................................................26

Create a document from a template.......................................27

Saving a document.....................................................................27

Save as a Microsoft Word document......................................27

Combining several documents into a book...............................28

2 Set up Writer...............................................29

Choosing options for all of LibreOffice......................................29

User data................................................................................30

View options...........................................................................30

Print options...........................................................................31

Fonts options..........................................................................32

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