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

|| In this tutorial we will learn the following:

||Find and Replace

||Spellcheck

 

||AutoCorrect

|| Here we are using GNU/ Linux as our operating system and  LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4  

|| 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.  

||So first open our '''resume.odt''' file

|| Now click on the '''Edit''' option and then click on '''Find and Replace.'''  

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

|| 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 type '''Ramesh''' in the Search For field.

||Now click on  '''Find All'''.

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

|| 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'''.

|| 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

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

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

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

|| 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.  

|| Spellcheck looks for spelling mistakes in words and gives you the option of adding an unknown word to a user dictionary.

|| The spell check feature is distinct for each language.

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

|| 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 USA''' option.

||Now under the heading '''Default 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'''.

||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.

||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.

|| 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.

||Let us undo the changes.

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

||  AutoCorrect is found in the drop down menu of the '''Format''' option in the menu bar.

|| 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..  

|| 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.

|| 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.

|| Then click on '''AutoCorrect''' in the drop down menu and finally click on '''AutoCorrect''' Options in the sub menu.

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

|| 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.

||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.

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

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

|| So let us see how an abbreviation like '''stp''' gets automatically converted to '''Spoken Tutorial Project'''

|| 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.

|| 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.

||Now click on the '''OK''' button.

|| 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'''.

||Let us undo the changes.

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

||Find and Replace

 

||Spell check

||AutoCorrect  

|| 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 '''TLW''' and see its implementation.

|| Watch the video available at the following link it summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.

|| The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. Give certificates for those who pass an online test.

|| For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org

||Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project,

|| More information on this Mission is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro

|| This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt.Ltd

 

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