Adding a Movie or Sound

Getting Started with Apache OpenOffice 4

Chapter 3: Getting Started with Writer

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• What Is Writer?
• The Writer interface
• Changing Document Views
• Moving Quickly through a Document
• Working with documents
• Working with text
  • Selecting Items That Are Not Consecutive
  • Selecting a Vertical Block of Text
  • Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
  • Finding and Replacing Text and Formatting
  • Inserting Special Characters
  • Inserting Dashes and Non-breaking Spaces and Hyphens
  • Setting Tab Stops and Indents
  • Changing the Default Tab stop Interval
  • Checking Spelling and Grammar
  • Using Built-in Language tools
  • Using AutoCorrect
  • Using Word Completion
  • Using AutoText
• Formatting Text
  • Formatting Paragraphs
  • Formatting Characters
  • Auto-formatting
  • Creating Numbered or Bulleted Lists
  • Hyphenating Words
• Formatting Pages
  • Which Layout Method to Choose?
  • Creating Headers and Footers
  • Numbering Pages
  • Changing Page Margins
• Adding Comments and Graphics to a Document
• Creating a Table of Contents
• Creating Indexes and Bibliographies
• Adding Images and Other Graphics
• Adding Tables, Spreadsheets, and Charts
  • Creating a Table from a Calc Spreadsheet
  • Creating a Chart
• Adding a Movie or Sound
• Printing
• Using Mail Merge
• Tracking Changes to a Document
• Using Fields
• Linking to another part of a document
  • Using Hyperlinks
  • Using Cross-References
  • Using Bookmarks
• Using Master Documents
• Creating Fill-in Forms

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Adding a Movie or Sound

To insert a movie or sound file into your document:

1. Click where you want to insert the file.
2. Choose Insert → Movie and Sound.
3. In the File Open dialog, select the file that you want to insert. The file types listed in this dialog are not supported by all operating systems.
4. Click  Open .

Alternatively, you can choose Tools → Media Player to open the Media Player. Use the Media Player to preview all supported media files. Click the  Apply  button in the Media Player window to insert the current media file into your document.

To play a movie or sound file:

• Click the object icon for the movie or sound file in your document.

If the icon is arranged on the background, hold down  Ctrl  while you click.

• The Media Playback toolbar is shown. Click  Play .

You can also use the Media Playback toolbar to pause, stop, or loop, as well as to adjust the volume or mute the playback of the file. For movie files, the toolbar also provides a slider for selecting the zoom factor for the playback.