Main options for Apache OpenOffice Writer

Writer is the word processor of the Template:Documentation/AOO suite and allows you to create high quality press-ready documents with crisp graphics, convert them effortlessly to PDF as well as other popular formats using built-in components, all from a great variety of platforms.

Writer has a very powerful styles feature that allows you to automate complex tasks and helps you keep consistency throughout your document. We will discuss styles in the next section.

Before discussing how to automate tasks or style your documents we need to learn the different options for inserting content into a Writer document.

Topics in this section:

1. Writer's User Interface
2. Writer's Sidebar
3. Starting a New Document
4. Opening a Document
5. Saving a Document
6. Closing a Document
7. Document Views
8. Getting Help