LibreOffice 4.0 Writer Guide Word Processing with Style Copyright This document is Copyright © 2011–2013 by its contributors as listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), version 3.0 or later. All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. Contributors John A Smith David Blymire Jeremy Cartwright John M. Długosz Barbara Duprey Jamie Eby Ron Faile Jr. Hazel Russman Gary Schnabl Peter Schofield Jean Hollis Weber Cover art: Klaus-Jürgen Weghorn Jean Hollis Weber Christoph Noack Drew Jensenn Acknowledgments This book is adapted and updated from the OpenOffice.org 3.3 Writer Guide. The contributors to that book are listed on page 13. Feedback Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to: [email protected] Publication date and software version Published 6 June 2013. Based on LibreOffice 4.0.3. Documentation for LibreOffice is available at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation Contents Copyright..................................................................................................................................... 2 Preface.................................................................................................................................. 9 Who is this book for?................................................................................................................. 10 What is in this book?.................................................................................................................. 10 Where to get more help?........................................................................................................... 10 What you see may be different................................................................................................... 11 Using LibreOffice on a Mac........................................................................................................ 12 What are all these things called?............................................................................................... 12 Who wrote this book?................................................................................................................ 13 Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................... 13 Frequently asked questions....................................................................................................... 14 New features in LibreOffice Writer 4.0....................................................................................... 15 Chapter 1 Introducing Writer.............................................................................................................. 17 What is Writer?.......................................................................................................................... 18 Parts of the main Writer window................................................................................................ 18 Changing document views......................................................................................................... 25 Starting a new document........................................................................................................... 26 Opening an existing document...................................................................................................28 Saving a document.................................................................................................................... 29 Password protection.................................................................................................................. 30 Closing a document................................................................................................................... 32 Closing LibreOffice.....................................................................................................................32 Using the Navigator................................................................................................................... 33 Undoing and redoing changes................................................................................................... 37 Chapter 2 Setting up Writer................................................................................................................ 39 Choosing options for Writer that affect all LibreOffice components............................................ 40 Choosing options for loading and saving documents................................................................. 50 Choosing options for Writer........................................................................................................54 Choosing options for HTML documents..................................................................................... 63 Choosing language settings....................................................................................................... 63 Controlling Writer’s AutoCorrect functions..................................................................................65 Chapter 3 Working with Text...............................................................................................................67 Introduction................................................................................................................................ 68 Selecting text............................................................................................................................. 68 Cutting, copying, and pasting text.............................................................................................. 69 Finding and replacing text and formatting.................................................................................. 70 Inserting special characters....................................................................................................... 73 Formatting paragraphs...............................................................................................................75 Formatting characters................................................................................................................ 78 LibreOffice 4.0 Writer Guide 3 Autoformatting........................................................................................................................... 79 Creating numbered or bulleted lists........................................................................................... 80 Using footnotes and endnotes................................................................................................... 83 Checking spelling and grammar.................................................................................................86 Using built-in language tools...................................................................................................... 90 Using synonyms and the thesaurus........................................................................................... 91 Hyphenating words.................................................................................................................... 93 Using AutoCorrect...................................................................................................................... 94 Using word completion...............................................................................................................95 Using AutoText........................................................................................................................... 96 Line numbering.......................................................................................................................... 98 Tracking changes to a document............................................................................................... 99 Adding other comments........................................................................................................... 102 Linking to another part of a document...................................................................................... 103 Switching between insert and overwrite mode......................................................................... 106 Counting the words in a selection............................................................................................ 107 Changing the case of selected text.......................................................................................... 107 Chapter 4 Formatting Pages.............................................................................................................109 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 110 Choosing a layout method........................................................................................................110 Setting up basic page layout using styles.................................................................................112 Changing page margins........................................................................................................... 116 Using columns to define the page layout..................................................................................117 Using frames for page layout..................................................................................................