Getting Started with LibreOffice 3.4 Copyright This document is Copyright © 2010–2012 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. Contributors Jean Hollis Weber Jeremy Cartwright Ron Faile Jr. Martin Fox Dan Lewis David Michel Andrew Pitonyak Hazel Russman Peter Schofield John A Smith Cover art: Drew Jensen Christoph Noack Klaus-Jürgen Weghorn Jean Hollis Weber Acknowledgements This book is adapted from Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3.3. 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 19 April 2012. Based on LibreOffice 3.4.6. 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's in this book?................................................................................................................... 10 Where to get more help............................................................................................................. 10 What you see may be different................................................................................................... 11 Using LibreOffice on a Mac........................................................................................................ 11 What are all these things called?............................................................................................... 12 Who wrote this book?................................................................................................................ 13 Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................... 13 Frequently asked questions....................................................................................................... 13 Chapter 1 Introducing LibreOffice..................................................................................................... 15 What is LibreOffice?...................................................................................................................16 The advantages of LibreOffice................................................................................................... 17 Minimum requirements.............................................................................................................. 18 How to get the software............................................................................................................. 18 How to install the software......................................................................................................... 18 Extensions and add-ons............................................................................................................ 18 Starting LibreOffice.................................................................................................................... 18 Parts of the main window........................................................................................................... 20 Starting a new document........................................................................................................... 24 Opening an existing document...................................................................................................25 Saving a document.................................................................................................................... 25 Renaming and deleting files....................................................................................................... 27 Using the Open and Save As dialogs.........................................................................................27 Using the Navigator................................................................................................................... 28 Undoing and redoing changes................................................................................................... 29 Closing a document................................................................................................................... 30 Closing LibreOffice.....................................................................................................................30 Chapter 2 Setting up LibreOffice........................................................................................................31 Choosing options for all of LibreOffice....................................................................................... 32 Choosing options for loading and saving documents................................................................. 44 Choosing language settings....................................................................................................... 49 Choosing Internet options.......................................................................................................... 51 Controlling LibreOffice’s AutoCorrect functions.......................................................................... 52 Chapter 3 Using Styles and Templates............................................................................................. 53 What is a template?................................................................................................................... 54 What are styles?........................................................................................................................ 54 Applying styles........................................................................................................................... 55 Getting Started with LibreOffice 3.4 3 Modifying styles......................................................................................................................... 57 Creating new (custom) styles..................................................................................................... 58 Copying and moving styles........................................................................................................ 60 Deleting styles........................................................................................................................... 62 Using a template to create a document..................................................................................... 62 Creating a template................................................................................................................... 63 Editing a template...................................................................................................................... 65 Adding templates obtained from other sources.......................................................................... 66 Setting a default template.......................................................................................................... 67 Associating a document with a different template...................................................................... 68 Organizing templates................................................................................................................. 69 Printing a list of styles defined in a template or document.........................................................71 Examples of style use................................................................................................................ 72 Chapter 4 Getting Started with Writer............................................................................................... 75 What is Writer?.......................................................................................................................... 76 The Writer interface................................................................................................................... 76 Changing document views......................................................................................................... 78 Moving quickly through a document...........................................................................................79 Working with documents............................................................................................................ 80 Working with text....................................................................................................................... 81 Formatting text........................................................................................................................... 89 Formatting pages....................................................................................................................... 93 Adding comments to a document...............................................................................................97 Creating a table of contents....................................................................................................... 98 Creating indexes