LibreOffice Base and Math Features Quiz

LibreOffice Features

• LibreOffice provides native-support drivers for multiple database engines, including MySQL/MariaDB, Adabas D, MS Access, and PostgreSQL.
• It has a formula editing feature, Math, which enables users to insert perfectly formatted mathematical and scientific formulas in their documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings.

Image Editing

• GIMP is the recommended image editor for the Linux platform.
• It offers features like customizable interface, photo enhancement, digital retouching, and hardware support.

LibreOffice Components

• Writer (word processing): Offers AutoComplete feature, suggesting commonly-used words and phrases to complete what you have started typing, using the built-in dictionary and by scanning the documents you open.
• Calc (spreadsheet): Features Advanced DataPilot technology, enabling users to pull in raw data from corporate databases, cross-tabulate, summarize, and convert it into meaningful information.
• Impress (presentation): Offers the Fontworks tool, allowing users to create attractive 2D and 3D images from text, and supports multiple monitors, with the Presenter Console extension providing additional control over slide shows.
• Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts): An excellent package for producing technical drawings, brochures, posters, and many other documents, offering features like manipulating graphical objects, grouping, cropping, using objects in 3D, and more.

Text Editing Commands

• Text Deletion Commands:
  • x: deletes the current character
  • 3x: deletes the current character and the next two characters
  • dd: deletes the current line
  • 5dd: deletes the current line and the next four lines
  • dW: deletes from the current cursor position to the beginning of the next word
  • d$: deletes from the current cursor location to the end of the current line
  • d0: deletes from the current cursor location to the beginning of the line
  • d^: deletes from the current cursor location to the first non-whitespace character in the line
  • dG: deletes from the current line to the end of the file
  • d20G: deletes from the current line to the twentieth line of the file
• Text Yanking/Pasting Commands:
  • yy: copies the current line
  • 5yy: copies the current line and the next four lines
  • yW: copies from the current cursor position to the beginning of the next word
  • y$: copies from the current cursor location to the end of the current line
  • y0: copies from the current cursor location to the beginning of the line
  • y^: copies from the current cursor location to the first non-whitespace character in the line
  • yG: copies from the current line to the end of the file
  • y20G: copies from the current line to the twentieth line of the file