What is Writer?
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What Is Writer?
Writer is the word processor component of Apache OpenOffice. In addition to the usual features of a word processor (spelling check, thesaurus, hyphenation, autocorrect, find and replace, automatic generation of tables of contents and indexes, mail merge and others), Writer provides these important features:
- Templates and styles (see Chapter 2)
- Page layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables
- Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects
- Built-in drawing tools
- Master documents to group a collection of documents into a single document
- Change tracking during revisions
- Database integration, including a bibliography database
- Export to PDF, including bookmarks (see Chapter 9)
- And many more
These features are covered in detail in the Writer Guide.
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Formatting Pages
Writer provides several ways for you to control page layouts: page styles, columns, frames, tables, and sections. For more information, see Chapter 4 (Formatting Pages) in the Writer Guide.
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Page layout is usually easier if you show text, object, table, and section boundaries in Tools → Options → OpenOffice → Appearance, and paragraph ends, tabs, breaks, and other items in Tools → Options → OpenOffice Writer → Formatting Aids. These last items will appear when View → Nonprinting Characters is selected. |
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