Operation Manual

What is Writer?
Writer is the word processor component of LibreOffice. 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 3)
• Page layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables
• Automated tables of contents and indexes
• 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
• Mail merge
• Export to PDF, including bookmarks (see Chapter 10)
• And many more
These features are covered in detail in the Writer Guide.
The Writer interface
The main Writer workspace is shown in Figure 59. The menus and toolbars are described in
Chapter 1, Introducing LibreOffice.
Some other features of the Writer interface are covered in this chapter.
Figure 59: The main Writer workspace in Print Layout view (without the Sidebar)
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