LibreOffice 4.2 Writer Guide Libre Office Version
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- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introducing Writer
- Chapter 2 Setting up Writer
- Chapter 3 Working with Text
- Introduction
- Selecting text
- Cutting, copying, and pasting text
- Finding and replacing text and formatting
- Inserting special characters
- Formatting paragraphs
- Formatting characters
- Autoformatting
- Creating numbered or bulleted lists
- Using footnotes and endnotes
- Checking spelling and grammar
- Using built-in language tools
- Using synonyms and the thesaurus
- Hyphenating words
- Using AutoCorrect
- Using word completion
- Using AutoText
- Line numbering
- Tracking changes to a document
- Adding other comments
- Linking to another part of a document
- Switching between insert and overwrite mode
- Counting the words in a selection
- Changing the case of selected text
- Chapter 4 Formatting Pages
- Introduction
- Choosing a layout method
- Setting up basic page layout using styles
- Changing page margins
- Using columns to define the page layout
- Using frames for page layout
- Using tables for page layout
- Using sections for page layout
- Updating links
- Creating headers and footers
- Numbering pages
- Defining borders and backgrounds
- Chapter 5 Printing, Exporting, Faxing, and E‑Mailing
- Chapter 6 Introduction to Styles
- What are styles?
- The Styles and Formatting window
- Applying styles
- Modifying styles
- Creating custom paragraph styles: examples
- Deleting styles
- Assigning styles to shortcut keys
- Defining a hierarchy of headings
- Chapter 7 Working with Styles
- Introduction
- Creating custom (new) styles
- Working with paragraph styles
- Working with conditional paragraph styles
- Working with character styles
- Working with frame styles
- Working with page styles
- Working with list styles
- Chapter 8 Working with Images
- Chapter 9 Working with Tables
- Chapter 10 Working with Templates
- Chapter 11 Using Mail Merge
- What is mail merge?
- Creating and registering the data source
- Deregistering a data source
- Re-registering an existing data source
- Creating a form letter
- Printing mailing labels
- Printing envelopes
- Using the Mail Merge Wizard to create a form letter
- Chapter 12 Tables of Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies
- Introduction
- Tables of contents
- Alphabetic indexes
- Other types of indexes
- Bibliographies
- Creating a bibliographic database
- Adding entries to the database
- Maintaining entries in the database
- Adding references (citations) into a document
- Editing a reference
- Creating the bibliography
- Defining the paragraph style for the bibliography
- Updating, editing and deleting an existing bibliography
- Tools for working with bibliographies
- Chapter 13 Working with Master Documents
- Why use a master document?
- Styles in master documents and subdocuments
- Creating a master document: scenarios
- Splitting a document into master and subdocuments
- Combining several documents into a master document
- Starting with no existing documents
- Restarting page numbering
- Editing a master document
- Cross-referencing between subdocuments
- Using the Navigator
- Creating one file from a master document and its subdocuments
- Problem solving: Anchoring pictures to a page
- Chapter 14 Working with Fields
- Introduction to fields
- Quick and easy field entry
- Using document properties to hold metadata and information that changes
- Using other fields to hold information that changes
- Using AutoText to insert often-used fields
- Defining your own numbering sequences
- Using automatic cross-references
- Using fields in headers and footers
- Using fields instead of outline numbering for appendix numbering
- Tricks for working with fields
- Developing conditional content
- Using placeholder fields
- Using input fields and input lists
- Chapter 15 Using Forms in Writer
- Chapter 16 Customizing Writer
- Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts
- Introduction
- Opening menus and menu items
- Navigating and selecting with the keyboard
- Controlling dialogs
- Macros
- Shortcut keys for controlling documents and windows
- Function keys for Writer
- Shortcut keys for Writer
- Shortcut keys for tables
- Shortcut keys for paragraphs and heading levels
- Shortcut keys for moving and resizing frames, graphics, and objects
- Shortcut keys in the Gallery
- Shortcut keys in the New Theme area of the Gallery
- Shortcut keys in the Gallery preview area
- Selecting rows and columns in a database table (opened by F4)
- Shortcut keys for drawing objects
- Index