Practice

Download unformatted file “prax-en.txt”:
- go to openoffice-uni.org
- in the English section Right-click on file [txt]
- choose option Save link as
- choose Desktop or other location
- confirm Save
Open downloaded file:
- start OpenOffice Writer
- go to menu File > Open
- choose the file prax-en.txt and confirm Open
- go to download location
save your file in OpenOffice format:
- open Menu File › Save as…
- choose File type › ODF Text Document (.odt)
- confirm Save
Apply paragraph Style “Text Body”:
- mark whole document using keyboard shortcut Ctrl + a
- apply paragraph style Text Body using shortcut Ctrl + 0
- leaving text still marked open menu Format › Default Formatting (shortcut Ctrl + m)
- unmark your text by leftclicking anywhere in document
Modify your paragraph style Text Body:
- right-click any paragraph
- choose option Edit Paragraph Style… (not Paragraph…)
- check that top bar of pop-up menu does indeed display “Paragraph Style: Text Body”
- make following changes:
- under tab Indents & Spacing increase line spacing to 1.5 lines
- under tab Alignment choose Options › Justified
- under tab Text Flow activate Hyphenation › automatic,increasing Characters at end of line as well as Characters at beginning of line from 2 to 3; also tick options Orphan Control and Widow Control
Format your chapter headings:
- open menu Format › Styles and Formatting (shortcut F11)
- in the pop-up list of paragraph styles right-click the style Heading 1
- choose the option Modify
- under tab Indents & Spacing make following changes:
  - increase Spacing › Above paragraph to 1,2cm
  - increase Spacing › Below paragraph to 0,6cm
- under tab Font choose:
  - Font › Garamond
  - Typeface › Bold
- Size › 16pt (simply overwrite % sign with the letters “pt”)
- repeat these last steps for paragraph style Heading 2 (i.e. second level) but using these values instead:
  - Spacing › Above paragraph to 0,8cm
  - Spacing › Below paragraph to 0,4cm
- Font › Garamond
  - Typeface › Bold
  - Size › 13pt
Activate automatic Outline Numbering for the first two levels of Chapter Headers:
- Open menu Tools › Outline Numbering
- in the left column Level choose level 1
- in drop-down menu Number choose option 1, 2, 3 …
- repeat these steps for level 2
- ensure that Show sublevels is set to 2
- confirm with OK
Mark chapter headings:
- place cursor in first chapter heading “Introduction”
- remove existing numbering (“1”) as well as space
- press shortcut Ctrl + 1 to apply paragraph style Heading 1
- repeat these steps for first five main chapters (including chapter “Headings”)
- within chapter 5 look out for subheadings and apply style Heading 2 using shortcut Ctrl + 2 (make sure any existing numbers and spaces are removed beforehand)
Format your title page:
- mark the contents of your title page including the date “2013) (please don’t use your mouse for this but instead the up and down arrows in combination with shift key)
- open menu Format › Paragraph… (not the menu Format › Styles and Formatting!!)
- under tab Indents & Spacing apply following values:
  - Line Spacing › Single
  - Spacing › Below paragraph › 0cm
  - confirm OK
- with contents of title page still marked center justify all with button Centered in top bar
- increase font size from 12pt to 14pt
- unmark contents of title page by clicking anywhere in text
- mark the main title of your title page (“Apache OpenOffice Writer for students” and increase font size to 32pt
- apply typeface Bold to your main title
- increase center word of main title (“Writer”) further to 48pt
Prepare formatting style for first pages:
- open menu Format › Styles and Formatting
- in menu bar choose fourth button from left for Page Styles
- under tab Organizer choose as Next Style › First Page (this will allow you to have more than one non-numbered “first page”)
- under tab Page increase Margins › Left Margin to 3cm
- confirm OK
Apply formatting style “First Page” to your title page:
- place your cursor anywhere in your title page
- in your list for Page Styles double-click on style First Page (only by double-clicking it do you actually apply this style to the first page – in previous step you had merely prepared your style for the first pages)
Insert new page after title page:
- place cursor directly at bottom of title page (to the right of the date) and press shortcut Ctrl + Return in order to begin a new page
Format Default Page Style (for text pages):
- open menu Format › Styles and Formatting
- again choose fourth button from left in menu bar for Page Styles
- right-click on the page style Default
- choose option Modify and make following changes:
- under tab Header activate Header › Header on
- under tab Page increase Margins › Left margin to 3cm
- confirm OK
Insert table of contents:
- place cursor directly at beginning of second page (under the blue line)
- open menu Insert › Indexes and Tables › Indexes and Tables…
- confirm OK
Modify your table of contents:
- right-click your table of contents
- choose option Edit Index/Table
- under tab Index/Table reduce Evaluate up to level down to 2 (so you could well have three or more levels of chapter headings in your text but only the uppermost two will actually appear in your table of contents)
- under the tab Entries place the cursor inside the white space between the entries E# and E
- click once on the button Tab stop (in case you by mistake insert more than one Tab stop, you can delete it with Del key)
- click on button All
- confirm OK
Format your table of contents:
- right click any level 1 entry in your table of contents
- choose option Edit paragraph style…
- under tab Indents & Spacing use following values:
  - Indent › Before text › 0,8cm (positive value)
  - Indent › First line › -0,8cm (negative value)
  - Spacing › Above paragraph › 0,4cm
  - Line spacing › Single
  - Confirm OK
- repeat these steps for table of contents second level entries but with following values:
  - Indent › Before text › 1,8cm (positive value)
  - Indent › First line › -1cm (negative value)
  - Spacing › Above paragraph › 0,2cm
  - Line spacing › Single
  - Confirm OK
Insert break between last unnumbered page and first numbered page:
- place cursor immediately underneath your table of contents (in case you might not be able to fit cursor in because numbering of first chapter stands in the way, change latter’s format from Heading 1 to Text body temporarily, insert a new line and change it back again to Heading 1)
- open menu Insert › Manual Break… › Type › Page Break
- choose page Style › Default
- click Change page number
- insert value 1 (default anyway)
- confirm OK
- in case you have at this point a blank page too many, just delete it with Del key
Add numbers to your default page:
- place cursor inside header
- open menu Insert › Fields › Page number
- right align your newly inserted page number using appropriate button in menu bar
- to ensure that all numbering is up to date open menu Tools › Update › Update all

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