OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide

 3 Writer Guide

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Authors

Magnus Adielsson Bruce Byfield Dick Detwiler Martin Fox Tara Hess Lou Iorio Stefan A. Keel Sigrid Kronenberger Ian Laurenson Paul Miller Scott Rhoades Iain Roberts Robert Scott Barbara M. Tobias Catherine Waterman Linda Worthington

Agnes Belzunce Daniel Carrera Laurent Duperval Katharina Greif Peter Hillier-Brook John Kane Michael Kotsarinis Peter Kupfer Alan Madden Vincenzo Ponzi Carol Roberts Gary Schnabl Janet M. Swisher Jean Hollis Weber Bob Wickham Michele Zarri

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Publication date and software version

Published 27 December 2008. Based on 3.0.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing Writer.....................................................................9 What is Writer?.................................................................................10 Starting Writer..................................................................................10 The Writer interface..........................................................................14 Changing document views................................................................21 Using the Navigator..........................................................................22 Starting a new document..................................................................27 Opening an existing document..........................................................28 Saving a document............................................................................29 Getting help......................................................................................31 Closing a document..........................................................................31 Closing Writer...................................................................................32

Chapter 2 Setting up Writer......................................................................33 Choosing options that affect all of OOo............................................34 Choosing options for loading and saving documents........................46 Choosing options for Writer..............................................................51 Choosing options for HTML documents............................................61 Choosing language settings..............................................................62 Controlling Writer's AutoCorrect functions......................................65

Chapter 3 Working with Text.....................................................................66 Introduction......................................................................................67 Selecting text....................................................................................67 Cutting, copying, and pasting text....................................................69 Moving paragraphs quickly...............................................................70 Finding and replacing text................................................................71 Inserting special characters..............................................................75 Formatting paragraphs.....................................................................77 Formatting characters......................................................................81 Autoformatting..................................................................................82 Creating numbered or bulleted lists.................................................83 Using footnotes and endnotes...........................................................87

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Checking spelling..............................................................................89 Using language tools........................................................................90 Using the thesaurus..........................................................................92 Hyphenating words...........................................................................92 Using AutoCorrect............................................................................94 Using word completion.....................................................................95 Using AutoText..................................................................................96 Line numbering.................................................................................96 Undoing and redoing changes..........................................................97 Tracking changes to a document......................................................98 Inserting notes................................................................................102 Linking to another part of a document...........................................104 Working with hyperlinks.................................................................105 Switching between insert and overwrite mode...............................108 Counting the words in a selection...................................................108

Chapter 4 Formatting Pages...................................................................109 Introduction....................................................................................110 Choosing a layout method...............................................................110 Setting up basic page layout using styles.......................................112 Changing page margins..................................................................117 Using columns to define the page layout........................................118 Using frames for page layout..........................................................122 Using tables for page layout...........................................................129 Using sections for page layout........................................................132 Creating headers and footers..........................................................142 Numbering pages............................................................................147

Chapter 5 Printing, Exporting, Faxing, and E-Mailing...........................159 Introduction....................................................................................160 Quick printing.................................................................................160 Controlling printing........................................................................160 Printing a brochure.........................................................................164 Printing envelopes..........................................................................165 Printing labels.................................................................................167 Sending a fax..................................................................................169

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Exporting to PDF............................................................................172 Exporting to other formats.............................................................179 E-mailing Writer documents...........................................................179 Digital signing of documents..........................................................182

Chapter 6 Introduction to Styles.............................................................184 What are styles?..............................................................................185 The Styles and Formatting window.................................................186 Applying styles................................................................................191 Modifying styles..............................................................................200 Creating custom paragraph styles: examples.................................205 Copying and moving styles.............................................................209 Deleting styles................................................................................211 Assigning styles to shortcut keys....................................................212 Defining a hierarchy of headings....................................................212

Chapter 7 Working with Styles................................................................220 Introduction....................................................................................221 Creating custom (new) styles..........................................................221 Working with paragraph styles.......................................................225 Working with conditional paragraph styles.....................................237 Working with character styles........................................................239 Working with frame styles..............................................................242 Working with page styles................................................................245 Working with list styles...................................................................254

Chapter 8 Working with Graphics............................................................263

Graphics in Writer...........................................................................264 Adding images to a document.........................................................264 Modifying an image........................................................................269 Using Writer's drawing tools..........................................................276 Positioning graphics within the text................................................279 Adding captions to graphics............................................................290 Adding an image to the Gallery.......................................................293 Graphic file types supported...........................................................295

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