Writer Guide

Contents
Chapter 1
Introducing Writer...................................................................10
What is Writer?.................................................................................11
Starting Writer.................................................................................. 11
The Writer interface..........................................................................15
Changing document views................................................................23
Using the Navigator..........................................................................23
Starting a new document..................................................................28
Opening an existing document..........................................................30
Saving a document............................................................................ 31
Getting help......................................................................................33
Undoing and redoing changes..........................................................34
Closing a document..........................................................................34
Closing Writer...................................................................................35
Chapter 2
Setting up Writer......................................................................36
Choosing options that affect all of OOo............................................37
Choosing options for loading and saving documents........................50
Choosing options for Writer..............................................................56
Choosing options for HTML documents............................................66
Choosing language settings..............................................................66
Controlling Writer’s AutoCorrect functions......................................69
Chapter 3
Working with Text.....................................................................70
Introduction......................................................................................71
Selecting text....................................................................................71
Cutting, copying, and pasting text....................................................73
Finding and replacing text................................................................74
Inserting special characters..............................................................78
Formatting paragraphs.....................................................................80
Formatting characters......................................................................84
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