Writer Guide

Menus
The Menu bar is located across the top of the Writer window, just
below the Title bar. When you choose one of the menus, a submenu
drops down to show commands.
• File contains commands that apply to the entire document such
as Open, Save, and Export as PDF.
• Edit contains commands for editing the document such as Undo
and Find & Replace.
• View contains commands for controlling the display of the
document such as Zoom and Web Layout.
• Insert contains commands for inserting elements into your
document such as headers, footers, and pictures.
• Format contains commands for formatting the layout of your
document, such as Styles and Formatting, Paragraph, and
Bullets and Numbering.
• Table shows all commands to insert and edit a table in a text
document.
• Tools contains functions such as Spellcheck, Customize, and
Options.
• Window contains commands for the display window.
• Help contains links to the Help file, What’s This?, and information
about the program. See “Getting help” on page 31.
Toolbars
Writer has several types of toolbars: docked, floating, and tear-off.
Docked toolbars can be moved to different locations or made to float,
and floating toolbars can be docked.
The top docked toolbar (default position) is called the Standard
toolbar. The Standard toolbar is consistent across the OpenOffice.org
applications.
The second toolbar across the top (default location) is the Formatting
toolbar. It is a context-sensitive bar that shows the relevant tools in
response to the cursor’s current position or selection. For example,
when the cursor is on a graphic, the Formatting bar provides tools for
formatting graphics; when the cursor is in text, the tools are for
formatting text.
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