LibreOffice-Writer-on-BOSS-Linux/C2/Viewing-and-printing-documents/English

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Show Slide Number 1 TITLE SLIDE	Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer-Printing and Viewing documents.
Show Slide Number 2 Learning Objectives Viewing Documents. Printing Documents.	In this tutorial we will learn the following: Viewing Documents. Printing Documents.
Show Slide Number 3 OS and versions	Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
Show Slide Number 4 Don’t click.	So let us start our tutorial by learning about the various viewing options in LibreOffice Writer.
Show Slide Number 4 Click and display the bullet points.	There are basically two widely used viewing options in Writer. They are Print Layout and Web Layout.
Show Slide Number 5	The Print Layout option displays how the document will look when printed.
Show Slide Number 5	The Web Layout option displays the document as seen in a Web browser. This is useful when you want to create HTML documents as well as when you want to view the document in full screen mode for editing them.
Switch to resume.odt file. Click on View >> click on Print Layout.	To access the Print Layout option click on the View option and then click on the Print Layout option.
Click on View >> click on Web Layout.	In order to access the Web Layout option, click on the View option in the menu bar and then click on the Web Layout option.
Click on View >> click on Full Screen.	Apart from both these options, one can also view the document in full screen mode. Click on the View option in the menu bar and then click on the Full Screen option. The full screen mode is useful for editing the documents as well as for projecting them on a projector.
Press Esc.	In order to exit the full screen mode, press the Escape key on the keyboard. We see that the document exits the full screen mode.
	Now lets us click on Print Layout option in View menu.
Click Insert >> Manual Break >> Page break Then click on OK	Before proceeding further, let us add a new page to our document by clicking Insert >> Manual Break and choosing the Page break option. Then click on OK We will learn about this in more details in another tutorial.
Click on View and point to Zoom Click on Zoom	Another option for viewing the document is called Zoom. Click on the Viewoption in the menu bar and then click on Zoom.
Point Zoom and View Layout. Point Zoom factor and View layout.	You see that a Zoom and View Layout dialog box appears in front of us. It has headings namely, Zoom factorand View layout.
Point Zoom factor. Point to all the options under Zoom factor.	The Zoom factor sets the zoom factor to display the current document and all documents of the same type that you open thereafter. It has useful options which we will discuss one by one.
Point to Optimal but don’t click.	On clicking the Optimaloption you get the most favorable view of the document.
Click on Fit width and height>> Click OK.	The Fit width and height view fits the document across the the entire width and height of the page. Thereby, it displays one page at a time. It makes the viewing and editing of multiple pages of a document much easier.
Point to Fit to width option but don’t click.	Next option is Fit to Width. This fits the page to its width.
Point to 100% but don’t click.	100% view will display the page in its actual size.
Click on View->click on Zoom->Click on Variable->enter 75% in the field->Click on OK.	Next we have the most important viewing option called the Variable. In the variable field you can enter the zoom factor at which you want to display the document. For example,we enter the value as 75% in the Variable field and then click on the OK button. Likewise, you can change the zoom factor according to your need and convenience for viewing and editing the documents.
Click on View->click on Zoom	Another feature in the dialog box is the View layout
Point View layout. Point Automatic and Single page.	The View layout option is for text documents. It is used to reduce the zoom factor to see the effects of different view layout settings in the document. It has options like Automatic and Single page for displaying pages side by side and beneath each other respectively.
Click on Fit width and height->click Single page->click OK Scroll down to show the second page.	For example, if we select the Fit width and height option under Zoom factor, then click on the Single page option under the View layout option and finally click on the OK button, we see that the pages are displayed one below the other.
Click on View->click on Zoom->click on Automatic->click on OK.	Now click on the Automatic option and then click on the OK button. You see that the pages are displayed in side by side manner.
Scroll cursor across the three controls on the Writer Status Bar Point to the three controls on the Writer Status Bar	The three controls on the Writer Status Bar also allow to change the zoom and view layout of our document. The View Layout icons from left to right are as follows: Single column mode, view mode with pages side by side and book mode with two pages as in an open book.
Point to the Zoom slider and drag to the right and to the left and bring back to the centre.	We can also drag the Zoom slider to the right to zoom into a page or to the left to show more pages.
	Before learning about printing in LibreOffice Writer, let us learn something about Page preview.
Click on File and point to Page Preview	Click on File and click onPage Preview. The Page Preview bar appears when you view the current document in the page preview mode. It basically shows how your document will look like when it is printed.
Show page preview.	You can see the preview of our resume.odt file.
Point to the various controls in the toolbar.	There are various controls options in the tool bar of the preview page.
Point to Zoom In, Zoom Out, Next page, Previous pageand Print.	There are options to Zoom In, Zoom Out, Next page, Previous page and Print.
Show resume.odt file	After learning how to view documents in LibreOffice Writer as well as Page Preview, we will now learn how a Printer functions in LibreOffice Writer.
	A printer, in simple words, is an output device used to print a document. We will now see how to access the various options of Print.
Click on Tools ->click on Options Select LibreOffice writer ->click on Print	Click on the Tools in the menu bar and then click on Options . Click on the arrow beside LibreOffice Writer and finally click on Print.
click on OK	A dialog box appears on the screen giving you options to select from. So we keep the default settings and then click on the OK button.
Point to Print File Directly icon	Now, to directly print the entire document, click on the Print File Directly icon in the tool bar. This is known as Quick Printing.
	You can have more control over printing any document by accessing the Print option and changing the default settings.
Click on File ->click on Print	Click on the File menu in the menu bar and then click on Print.
	The Print dialog box appears on the screen.
Select Generic Printer option in General Tab.	Here we select the Generic Printer option in General Tab.
Point to All pages.	The All pages option is for printing all the pages of the document.
Click on Pages-> type 1-3	If you want to print a range of pages you can select the Pages option and enter the range in the field. For eg- we will type 1-3 here. This will print the first three pages of the document.
Click on Number of copies>> type 2	If you want to print multiple copies of the document, then enter the value in the Number of copies field. Let us enter the value 2 in the field.
Click on Options Drag cursor along all options.	Now let us click on the Options tab in the dialog box. A list of option appears on the screen from where you can select and print in the document.
Point to Print in reverse page order. Click on Print in reverse page order checkbox.	We see a check box namely Print in reverse page order. This option makes it easier to collect large outputs. So click on the check box against it.
Point to Print	Now click on the Print button.
Double-click on resume.pdf file on desktop.	You can also take the print out of your pdf document. We have already seen how to convert a dot odt document to a dot pdf file. Since we have already saved the pdf file on the desktop, we will double-click on the pdf file.
Click on File->click on Print Click on Print Preview	Now click on the File option and then click on Print. Let us keep the default settings and then click on the Print Preview button.
Click on Print this document	You see that the preview of the file on the screen. Now click on the Print this document icon in the preview page in order to print it.
Show Slide number 6 SUMMARY 1.Viewing Documents 2.Printing Documents.	This brings us to the end of the spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer To summarize, we learned about: Viewing Documents. Printing Documents.
Show Slide number 5 COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT Write the text This is LibreOffice Writer in Writer. Use the Full Screenoption to get a full screen view of the document. Use the zoom option to have an optimal as well as Variable view of the document.Set the variable value as 50% and then view the document. Have a Page preview of the document and print two copies of the document with borders on the page.	COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT Write the text This is LibreOffice Writer in Writer. Use the Full Screenoption to get a full screen view of the document. Use the zoom option to have an optimal as well as Variable view of the document.Set the variable value as 50% and then view the document. Have a Page preview of the document and print two copies of the document with borders on the page.
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