LibreOffice Writer Part B PDF

LIBREOFFICE WRITER-PARTB Page Orientation Writer offers two page orientation options: landscape and portrait. Landscape means the page is oriented horizontally, while portrait means the page is oriented vertically. With your document open, go to the Format menu. C...

LIBREOFFICE WRITER-PARTB Page Orientation Writer offers two page orientation options: landscape and portrait. Landscape means the page is oriented horizontally, while portrait means the page is oriented vertically. With your document open, go to the Format menu. Choose Page Style…. On the Page Style settings panel, be sure the Page tab is selected. You can also select the Page option (Alt +5) using the properties panel. Headers and Footers Headers and footers are predefined pieces of text that are printed at the top or bottom of a sheet outside of the sheet area. A header or footer is text or graphics such as a page number, the date, or a company logo that is usually printed at the top or bottom of each page in a document. Header is printed in the top margin and footer in the bottom margin. They are set the same way. Use Insert→ Header or Insert→ Footer for inserting either the header or footer. Setting a header or a footer To set a header or footer: 1. Navigate to the document that you want to set the header or footer for. 2. Insert -> Header and Footer -> Header -> [x] Default Style. 3. Click into the header and start typing or inserting your desired content. 4. Once you click, you would see an editable section at the top and at the bottom based on what you have clicked. 1  From here you can also set the margins, the spacing, and height for the header or footer. You can check the AutoFit height box to automatically adjust the height of the header or footer. Changing the size of the left or right margin adjusts how far the header or footer is from the side of the page. Setting margins in LibreOfficeWriter To set margins in LibreOffice Writer, follow the steps below:  Click the Format menu, then click Page Style.  On the Page tab, in the Margins section, enter the desired margin lengths, or use the arrow buttons beside each margin to increase or decrease the margins.  Click OK to set the selected margins. 2 Creating a Table To insert a new table, position the cursor where you want the table to appear, then use any of the following methods to open the Insert Table dialog box: From the main menu, select Table > Insert Table. Press Control+F12. From the Standard toolbar, click the Table icon Here you can specify the properties for the new table. Under Name, you can enter a different name than the Writer generated default for the table. This might come in handy when using the Navigator to quickly jump to a table. Under Size, specify the initial number of columns and rows for the new table. You can change the size of the table later, if necessary. Under Options, setup the initial table characteristics. Selecting the options in this section of the dialog produces the following results: Heading—Defines the first row(s) in the table as headings. The default Table Heading paragraph style is applied to the heading rows and thus makes the text centered, bold, and italic. Repeat heading—Repeats the heading row(s) of the table at the top of subsequent pages if the table spans more than one page. Heading…rows—Specifies the number of rows to be repeated. Default is 1. Don’t split tables over pages— Prevents the table from spanning more than one page. This can be useful if the table starts near the end of a page, and would look better if it were completely located on the following page. If the table becomes longer than would fit on one page, you will need to either deselect this option or manually split the table. Under Styles, select the style of the table required by you. 3 You can also Insert a table with the default properties, click on the little arrow next to the Table icon on the Standard toolbar. A graphic appears where you can choose the table’s size (rows and columns).To create the table, click on the cell that you want to be on the last row of the last column. Holding down the mouse button over the Table icon will also display the graphic. Text Properties In LibreOffice Writer you can change any text to sentence case, lowercase, uppercase, capitalize every word, or toggle case, give a shadow effect, outline the text, superscript, subscript by following the steps below. 1. Highlight the text you want to change. 2. Once highlighted click Format and then Text. 3. For example: Select the type of capitalization you want. The text can be changed to different cases like:  Uppercase(Capital letters)  Toggle case(reverse case)  Sentence case(first letter of each sentence Capital)  Capitalize every word(first letter of each word capital)  lowercase(Small letters) Clone Formatting When we are editing a document, we may sometimes find the formatting of the document is not uniform or sometimes, we may want to quickly apply the same formatting of one paragraph to another text. All these situations can be easily solved with Clone Formatting. The Clone Formatting tool is used to copy and paste character and paragraph formats to existing text. This tool, used in conjunction with styles, can make organizing and reformatting documents easier and more efficient. 1. Select the text content that has the formatting that you want to copy. 2. Click the Clone Formatting button from the standard toolbar. 3. Now when the cursor returns to the document editing area, use the brush to paint over a selection of text to which you want to apply the formatting. 4 Using Columns to define the page layout To define the number of columns on a page: 1. Choose Format>Columns or go to the Columns page of the Page Style dialog box. 2. On the Columns dialog box, choose the number of columns and specify any spacing between the columns and whether you want a vertical separator line to appear between the columns. You can use one of Writer's predefined column layouts, or you can create a customized column layout. The preview box, located to the right of the Settings area, shows how the column layout will look. 3. Notice the Apply to box on the right-hand side of the dialog box. In this case, the changes are being applied to the Default page style. 4. Click OK to save the changes. Inserting special characters 1. Select Insert→Special Character. In the dialog that appears, all the available characters in the current fonts will be displayed. 2. Select a character by clicking on it. If you do not see the desired character, it may not be available in the current font. If it is not there, try changing fonts. 3. After selecting one or more characters, click OK to insert the characters at the location of the text cursor. Find and Replace Writer has a Find and Replace feature that automates the process of searching for text inside a document. To display the Find & Replace dialog box, use the keyboard shortcut Control+H or select Edit > Find & Replace. 1. Type the text you want to find in the Find box. 2. To replace the text with different text, type the new text in the Replace box. 3. You can select various options such as comments, similarity search, etc. You can also use “Attributes” and “Format” options. 4. When you have set up your search, click Find. To replace text, click Replace instead. 5 Spelling and Grammar Writer provides a spelling checker, which is used to check each word as it is typed and displays a wavy redline under any misspelled words. Once the word is corrected, the line disappears. To perform a separate spelling check on the document (or a text selection), click Tools >Spelling option. (F7) This checks the document or selection and opens the Spelling dialog box if any misspelled words are found. Thesaurus The thesaurus offers alternative words and phrases. Select the word or phrase you want to find alternatives for and select Tools > Thesaurus or press Ctrl+F7. Click on a meaning to show alternative words and phrases for that meaning of the word. Positioning Image/Graphic in the Text Text Wrapping It allows the placement of image in relation to text. Text wrapping is the manner in which the inserted object or shape/image will be arranged with respect to the text, which may wrap around the image/shape on one or both sides, may be placed behind or in front of the graphic/object. Some of the options are: None, Parallel, Optimal, Before, After and Through. 6