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Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer – Using Find and Replace feature and the AutoCorrect feature in Writer.
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Learning Objectives

Find and Replace

Spellcheck

AutoCorrect

In this tutorial we will learn the following:

Find and Replace

Spellcheck

AutoCorrect


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OS and versions

Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4
Slide Number 4 Now let us start by learning about the Find and Replace button in the Writer.

It searches for text and/or replaces text in the entire document.

Open resume.odt

Let us learn more about it through an example.

So first open our resume.odt file

Click on Edit button->click on Find and Replace. Now click on the Edit option and then click on Find and Replace.

Alternately, click on the button in the standard tool bar.

You see a dialog box appears with a Search for and a Replace with field.


Type Ramesh in Search for

Click Find All

Enter the text that you want to search for in the Search for field.

For example we have to search for all the places where Ramesh is written in our document.

So typeRamesh in the Search For field. Now click on Find All.

Point to the highlighted Ramesh You see that all the places where Ramesh is written in our document, get highlighted.



Type MANISH in the Replace with tab click on Replace All

Enter the text that you want to replace this with in the Replace with field.

For example we want to replace Ramesh with "MANISH" in our document.

So we type Manish in the Replace with tab.

Now click on Replace All.


Click on More Options

You see that everywhere Ramesh in our document gets replaced with Manish

At the bottom of the dialog box, we see a More Options button. Click on it

Point to Backwards,Current selection,Regular expressions, Search for Style.

The More Options button contains a list of specific "Find and Replace" options.

It has options like Backwards which searches for the text from bottom to top, Current selection only which searches for text inside the selected portion of text.

It has other advanced options like Regular expressions, Search for Styles and a few more.

Point to Attributes,Format and No Format buttons.



Click on Close.

There are three more options on the right hand side of the dialog box.

They are Attributes,Format and No Format.

They provide users with various types of advanced find and replace options.

Let us close this. We will learn about them in more advanced tutorials.

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After learning about Find and Replace feature, we will now learn about how to check spellings in LibreOffice Writer using Spellcheck.
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Spellcheck is used for checking the spelling mistakes in the entire document or the selected portion of text.
Slide Number 6 The spellcheck starts at the current cursor position and advances to the end of the document or selection.

You can then choose to continue the spellcheck from the beginning of the document.

Slide Number 7 Spellcheck looks for spelling mistakes in words and gives you the option of adding an unknown word to a user dictionary.
Let us see how it is implemented.
Switch to Libreoffice Writer window,that is,resume.odt

Click on Tools->Options->Language Settings->Languages

The spell check feature is distinct for each language.

For example, click on the Tools option in the menu bar and then click on Options.

In the dialog box which appears, click on the Language Settings option and finally click on Languages.

Point to English(USA) under the User interface option.

click on the down arrow in Locale setting field and click on the English USA option.



Point to Western



Click on down arrow in Western and click on English(USA).

Click on OK.

Under the option User interface,make sure that the default option is set as English USA.

Below that click on the down arrow in the Locale setting field and then click on the English USAoption.

Now under the headingDefault languages for documents, the default language set in the Western field is English India.

Since English India may not have the dictionary required by spell check, we will change the language to English USA.

So click on the down arrow in the Western field and click on the English USA option. Finally click on the OK button.

So we are now ready to see how the spellcheck feature works for the language, English USA.


Click on AutoSpell Checkbutton.


Replace HOUSEWIFE with husewife



Place the cursor on the wordhusewife. Click on Spelling and Grammar option.

To use the Spelling and Grammar feature, make sure that the AutoSpellCheck option is enabled.

So let us click on the AutoSpellCheck button in the toolbar if it is not enabled.

In our resume.odt file under Mother’s Occupation, we shall type a wrong spelling for housewife in the sentence, as husewife and press the spacebar.

You see that a red line appears just below the incorrect word.

Now place the cursor on the word husewife and click on the Spelling and Grammar icon in the standard tool bar.

So we see the word in the Not in dictionary field.

Point tohusewifein red color. The word with the wrong spelling is highlighted in red and there are several suggestions for the correct word in the Suggestions box from where you can choose the correct word.
In the Suggestion box click on housewife--> click on Change button.




Undo the changes.

In the suggestion box,click on the word housewife and then click on the Change button.

Click on OK in the small dialog box that appears.

You see that the correct spelling now appears in the document. Let us undo the changes.

Let us now learn about another standard tool bar option called AutoCorrect.

The AutoCorrect feature is an extension of Spellcheck.

Point to Format

AutoCorrect is found in the drop down menu of the Format option in the menu bar.
Point to AutoCorrect and then click it.


Point to AutoCorrect Options in the sub-menu.

AutoCorrect automatically formats the file according to the options that you set.

These options are selected by clicking on the AutoCorrect Options.

AutoCorrect dialog box appears.



Click on Options tab.

The AutoCorrect dialog box will open.

AutoCorrect feature automatically corrects text as you write.

The corrections are made according to the options you have selected in the Options tab..

Point to Delete spaces at the end and beginning of paragraph,Ignore double spaces and scroll down pointing to other options. There are several AutoCorrect options like Delete spaces at the end and beginning of paragraph, Ignore double spaces and many more.


So let us see how they work through an example.
Switch back to resume.odt

Type some text with single spaces in between words at few places and double and triple spaces between words at other places.

In our resume file, we shall type some text with single spaces in between words at few places and double and triple spaces between words at other places.

Click on Format

Select the entire text now.

Click on Format button on the menu bar.

Click on AutoCorrect

click on AutoCorrect Options

Then click on AutoCorrect in the drop down menu and finally click on AutoCorrect Optionsin the sub menu.
Click on the Options tab

Click on Ignore double spaces click on OK

Click on the Options tab.

Now put a check on Ignore double spaces and click on OK button.

Go the same text again and try to put 2 spaces between any 2 words.


Place cursor after the word MANISH. Press spacebar twice.


Type KUMAR after giving space as his surname.

The next text which you type doesn’t allow you to have double spaces in between words automatically.

Let us place the cursor after the name,MANISH. Now press the spacebar on the keyboard twice.

You see that the cursor only moves one place and doesn’t allow double spaces in the text. After the single space, type the surname as KUMAR

AutoCorrect also has the ability to replace a word or an abbreviation with a more significant or longer text.

It saves typing effort by creating shortcuts to long words.

Open resume.odt

Highlight the words NAME and EXAMINATION in the document



Type the text This is a Spoken Tutorial Project


For example, in our resume.odt file, there might be few set of words or word which are used repeatedly in the document.

It can be cumbersome to type these sentences or words again and again.

Lets say we want to type the text, This is a Spoken Tutorial Project repeatedly in our document.

Then we can create an abbreviation which will directly get converted into our required text.

So let us see how an abbreviation like stp gets automatically converted to Spoken Tutorial Project.
Click on Format->Goto AutoCorrect->click on AutoCorrect Option.


Click on Replace tab.

Now click on the Format option in the menu bar then go to the AutoCorrect option and then click on the AutoCorrect Options.

In the dialog box that appears, click on the Replace tab.

Point toEnglish(USA).

Type stp in Replace field. Type Spoken Tutorial Project in With field.

Click on New.

Highlight the new entry in the table.


Click on OK.

Check that English USA is our language choice.

Now in the Replace field let us type the abbreviation which we want to replace as stp.

In the With field we type the replaced text as Spoken Tutorial Project.

Click on the New button in the dialog box.

You see that the entry is made in the replacement table. Now click on the OK button.

Type This is a stp and press spacebar.

Point to Spoken Tutorial Project in the sentence.



undo the changes.

Now as soon as we write the text This is a stp and press the spacebar. You will notice that the stp abbreviation gets converted to Spoken Tutorial Project.

This feature is very helpful when the same text is repeated several times in a document. Let us undo the changes.

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SUMMARY

This brings us to the end of this spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer

To summarize, we learned about:

Find and Replace Spell check AutoCorrect

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COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT

COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT

Type the following text in Writer - This is a new document.The document deals with find and replace.

Now Find and Replace the word document in your text with the word file.

Replace the word text in your document with the spelling ' t x t

Use the Spellcheck feature to correct the spelling to text.

Use English(USA) as your default language. Using the AutoCorrect feature, create an abbreviation for the text This is LibreOffice Writer as TLWand see its implementation.

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