GETTING STARTED WITH OPENOFFICE WRITER

By Remy Lentzner

This book treats of OpenOffice WRITER, the free word processing. In order to master it, you must study the basics such as paragraph management, pages layout, headers and footers and other important tools. The key takeways is the styles, which are essential for the entire organization of the text management. Thanks to them, you will control the table of contents, the automatic numbering of paragraphs or the way to present an index. You will also learn about tables, mailing, forms, with pictures and footnotes. 
OpenOffice WRITER is easy to use and has many features that will help you in your daily work.
Enjoy your reading !

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rémy Lentzner has been an IT trainer since 1985. Specialized in mastering office automation tools, he supports companies in the professional training of their employees. Self-taught, he has several computer books to his credit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Remylent
• Release date: Sep 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9782490275793

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Chapter 1

The working environment

This chapter shows the OpenOffice WRITER working environment with its menu groups and different features.

1.1 Startup

As soon as OpenOffice application is installed on your computer, a menu appears offering different modules available (figure 1.1).

Figure 1.1: Starting the OpenOffice application.

The application possibilities are: word processing, spreadsheet, slides and database management, drawing tools and mathematical formulas. Inside each one, you can use the programming BASIC language to create macros.

When starting the word processing, you will see the main menu and ribbons, as shown in figure 1.2.

Figure 1.2: The ribbon and different menu options.

The following list details the different menu options.

File. These are classic features for opening, closing and creating a new document. You can save the files in the standard OpenDocument format .ODT but also in the Microsoft .DOC format. Be careful when converting an OpenOffice file to Word, the layout is not always exactly the same. You can also export data to PDF by specifying parameters via a dedicated dialogue box. Some of these are interesting, especially those that define the security of the PDF file. There is a wizard for making ready-to-use documents and other possibilities such as a document converter. Note the Create Master Document feature in the Send submenu. It enables you to split documents into several parts such as a title page, a cover page, a table of contents and several chapters. This structure is always organized with styles and facilitates automatic page numbering. OpenOffice WRITER also allows you to create document templates that can be managed via the Templates/Organize