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OpenOffice.org 1.1 Writer Introduction

  Page

Writer Basics

 1
Screen Layout 1
Moving Around the Document 3
Showing, Docking and Hiding Windows 4
Help Agent and Tips 5
Navigator  6

Selecting Text

  7
Introduction  7
Selecting with the Mouse  7
Selecting with the Keyboard  8

Editing Text

  9
Summary  9
Deleting Text  9
Undo and Redo  9
The Windows Clipboards  10
Copying and Moving Text with Drag-and-Drop  10
Direct Cursor  11

File Operations

  13
Summary of File Shortcut Keys  13
Saving Documents  13
Closing Documents  14
Opening Documents  15
Places Bar  15
Starting a New Document  15
Versions  15
Finding Files in Windows  16
File Management  16

Character Formatting

  17
Introduction  17
Character Formatting Keys and Buttons  17
Font Types  17

Paragraph Formatting

  19
What is a Paragraph?  19
Paragraph Formatting Keys and Buttons  19
Paragraph Dialog  20
Paragraph Formatting with the Ruler  22
Paragraph Bullets and Numbers  23

Document Setup

  25
Margins  25
Newspaper Columns  25
Headers and Footers  26

AutoCorrect and AutoFormat

  27
Word Completion  27
Replace  28
Exceptions  29

AutoText

  31
Creating an AutoText Entry  31
Inserting an AutoText Entry  31
Printing a List of AutoText Entries  32

Printing

  33
Page Breaks  33
Page Preview  33
Printing  35

Tabs

  37
What are Tabs?  37
Setting Custom Tab Stops  37

Tables

  39
Why use Tables?  39
Inserting a Table  39
Moving and Selecting in a Table  41
Working with Tables  41
Formatting a Table  43

Finding and Replacing

  45
What will Writer Find & Replace?  45
Finding and Replacing Text  45
Find & Replace Options  46

Proofing

  49
Spellcheck  49

Mail Merge

  51
What is a Mail Merge?  51
Creating a Mail Merge  51
Address Data Source AutoPilot  53
Labels  56

Customising Toolbars

  57

Appendix

  59
Formatting Shortcut Keys  59
Shortcut Keys for OpenOffice.org Writer  60
Shortcut Keys for Paragraphs and Heading Levels  62
Shortcut Keys for Tables in OpenOffice.org Writer  62
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Calc 1.1 Adv
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