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Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Writer Guide

Chapter 1: Introducing Writer

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• What is Writer?
• Parts of the Main Writer Window
  • Title Bar
  • Menus
  • Toolbars
  • Floating Toolbars
  • Customizing Toolbars
  • Statusbar
  • Sidebar
• Changing Document Views
• Starting a New Document
• Opening an Existing Document
• Saving a Document
• Password Protection
• Closing a Document
• Closing OpenOffice
• Using the Navigator
• Getting Help
• What Are All These Things Called?
• Undoing and Redoing Changes
• Using Writer on a Mac

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Menus

The Menu bar is located just below the Title bar. When you choose one of the menus listed below, a submenu drops to show commands.

• File contains commands that apply to the entire document such as Open, Save, Print, and Export as PDF.

• Edit contains commands for editing the document such as Undo: xxx (where xxx is the command to undo) and Find & Replace. It also contains commands to cut, copy, and paste selected parts of your document.
• View contains commands for controlling the display of the document such as Zoom and Web Layout.
• Insert contains commands for inserting elements into your document such as headers, footers, and pictures.

• Format contains commands, such as Styles and Formatting, Paragraph, and Bullets and Numbering, for formatting the layout of your document

• Table shows all commands to insert and edit a table in a text document.
• Tools contains functions such as Spelling and Grammar, Customize, and Options. (On macOS, Options is under OpenOffice → Preferences)
• Window contains commands for the display window.
• Help contains links to the OpenOffice Help file, What's This?, and information about the program. See “Getting Help”.