Openoffice OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide Open Office 3.0 OOo G
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- Chapter 1
Introducing Writer
- What is Writer?
- Starting Writer
- The Writer interface
- Changing document views
- Using the Navigator
- Starting a new document
- Opening an existing document
- Saving a document
- Getting help
- Closing a document
- Closing Writer
- Chapter 2 Setting up Writer
- Chapter 3
Working with Text
- Introduction
- Selecting text
- Cutting, copying, and pasting text
- Moving paragraphs quickly
- Finding and replacing text
- Inserting special characters
- Formatting paragraphs
- Formatting characters
- Autoformatting
- Creating numbered or bulleted lists
- Using footnotes and endnotes
- Checking spelling
- Using language tools
- Using the thesaurus
- Hyphenating words
- Using AutoCorrect
- Using word completion
- Using AutoText
- Line numbering
- Undoing and redoing changes
- Tracking changes to a document
- Inserting notes
- Linking to another part of a document
- Working with hyperlinks
- Switching between insert and overwrite mode
- Counting the words in a selection
- 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
- Creating headers and footers
- Numbering pages
- Preliminaries: fields
- Preliminaries: Inserting a header
- Simple page numbering
- Combining header text and page number
- Changing the number format
- Numbering the first page something other than 1
- Numbering pages by chapter
- Restarting page numbering
- Problems with restarting page numbering
- Numbering portrait and landscape pages
- Chapter 5 Printing, Exporting, Faxing, and E‑Mailing
- Chapter 6 Introduction to Styles
- 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 Graphics
- Chapter 9 Working with Tables
- Chapter 10 Working with Templates
- Chapter 11
Using Mail Merge
- What is mail merge?
- Creating the data source
- Registering a 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
- Tools for working with bibliographies
- Chapter 13
Working with Master Documents
- Why use a master document?
- Styles and master documents
- Using the Navigator
- Creating a master document
- Recommended method for creating master documents
- Step 1. Plan the project
- Step 2. Create a template containing the required styles, fields, and other elements
- Step 3. Create the master document and subdocuments from the same template
- Step 4. Insert some information directly into the master document
- Step 5. Insert the subdocuments into the master document
- Step 6. Add table of contents, bibliography, index
- Editing a master document
- Cross-referencing between subdocuments
- Creating one file from a master document and its subdocuments
- Problem solving
- Chapter 14
Working with Fields
- Introduction to fields
- Quick and easy field entry
- Using document properties to hold 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 Math Objects
- Chapter 17 Customizing Writer
- Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts
- Index