OpenOffice Write / Writer Training

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The following lists the items that are covered in Writer:

Open the OpenOffice Writer application
Exploring the Writer environment
Modifying the toolbar settings
Using the Help function
Understanding the Open dialog box
Scrolling in a document
Creating a document
- Change the Font of text
- Other Font effects
- Aligning text
- Highlighting text
- Superscript and subscript
Saving your file for the first time
Viewing document properties
Open an existing document
Setting up your pages
Cut, Copy and Paste
Undo and Redo
Inserting Special characters
Insert a header into your document
- Insert a footer into your document
Inserting Footnotes and Endnotes
Creating a bullet list
- Creating a numbered list
- Using Graphics as bullets in a list
Creating Borders
Creating and working with tabs
Inserting notes
Inserting Bookmarks
- Using Bookmarks
Hyperlinks
Creating columns
Drop Caps
Line spacing
Using the spell check
Using the Thesaurus
Find and Replace text
Printing a document
Inserting a manual break
Inserting fields
Inserting an envelope
Insert another file into your document
Sending a document via e-mail
AutoText
- The AutoCorrect feature
Tracking changes
- Accept or Reject changes
Using textboxes to enter text
- FontWork
- Insert text animation
- Text animation settings
Inserting a table
- Insert an AutoFormat table
- Insert additional rows
- Insert additional columns
- Merging cells
- Splitting cells
- Table Format
- Adjusting column width and row height
- Deleting rows and columns
- Using the Sum function
Insert graphics from a file
- Adding a caption to a graphic
- Inserting a horizontal ruler
- Using the Gallery
- Drawing objects
- Creating an arrow
- Drawing multiple sided objects eg. polygon
- Moving and Sizing objects
- Grouping objects
- Wrapping text using graphics
- Add text to drawing objects
- Enhance objects
Insert a color background
- Add background using a graphic
- Add a background using the gallery
Creating a template
- Using templates
Recording a macro
- Running a macro
Export as PDF
Preparing to create a Table of Contents
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Editing the Table of Contents
Inserting objects
Creating a chart
Mail Merge
Exit Writer