LibreOffice-Suite-Writer-6.3/C2/Introduction-to-LibreOffice-Writer/English-timed
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| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Introduction to LibreOffice Writer. |
| 00:07 | In this tutorial, we will learn: |
| 00:10 | About LibreOffice Writer |
| 00:13 | Various toolbars in Writer |
| 00:16 | How to open a new and existing document |
| 00:20 | To save and close a document in Writer |
| 00:24 | To save as MS Word document |
| 00:27 | To export as a PDF document |
| 00:30 | LibreOffice Writer is the word processor component of the LibreOffice Suite. |
| 00:36 | It is the equivalent of Microsoft Word in Microsoft Office Suite. |
| 00:41 | It's free and open source software. |
| 00:45 | It can be shared, modified and distributed without any restrictions. |
| 00:51 | LibreOffice Writer can run on any of the following operating systems: |
| 00:57 | Microsoft Windows 8 or higher versions |
| 01:01 | GNU/Linux OS and |
| 01:04 | Mac OSX |
| 01:07 | This tutorial is recorded using Ubuntu Linux OS version 18.04 and
LibreOffice Suite version 6.3.5 |
| 01:19 | By default, the latest Ubuntu Linux OS has LibreOffice Suite pre-installed in it |
| 01:26 | To install a specific version, refer to the LibreOffice Installation series on this website. |
| 01:33 | Let us learn how to open LibreOffice Writer. |
| 01:37 | In Ubuntu Linux OS, click on the Show applications icon located at the bottom left corner. |
| 01:45 | In the search bar type Writer. |
| 01:49 | From the displayed list, click on the Libreoffice Writer icon. |
| 01:55 | In Windows OS, click on the Start Menu icon located at the bottom left corner. |
| 02:02 | In the search bar, type Writer. |
| 02:06 | From the displayed list, click on the Libreoffice Writer icon. |
| 02:11 | This will open an empty document in the main Writer window. |
| 02:16 | Now let us learn about the main components of the Writer window. |
| 02:21 | The Writer window has various toolbars at the top. |
| 02:25 | These are Title bar, Menu bar, Standard toolbar and Formatting bar. |
| 02:32 | At the bottom, we see the Search bar, Drawing toolbar and Status bar. |
| 02:39 | We can enable or disable these toolbars from the interface. |
| 02:44 | To do so, go to the View menu and select Toolbars. |
| 02:49 | From the sub menu, check or uncheck the toolbars based on your preference. |
| 02:56 | At the right side, we see the vertical scroll bar and sidebar. |
| 03:01 | All of these have the most commonly used options. |
| 03:05 | We will learn about these as the series progresses. |
| 03:09 | Now let us learn how to open a new document in Writer. |
| 03:14 | We can open a new document by clicking on the New icon in the Standard toolbar. |
| 03:20 | Alternatively go to the File menu in the menu bar. |
| 03:25 | Then click on the sub menu New and select the option Text Document. |
| 03:32 | A new Writer document named Untitled 2 opens up. |
| 03:37 | Close the newly opened document named Untitled 2 by clicking on the X icon at the top right. |
| 03:44 | Now, we’ll type some text in the Untitled 1 document. |
| 03:49 | Type the word “RESUME”. |
| 03:53 | Once done typing our document, we should save it for future use. |
| 03:58 | To save the file, click on the Save icon in the Standard toolbar. |
| 04:03 | A dialog box appears on the screen. |
| 04:06 | It prompts us to enter the name of our file in the Name field. |
| 04:11 | I will type the name of the file as “Resume”. |
| 04:15 | On the left side, I’ll select Desktop as the location to save my file. |
| 04:21 | Notice, we have a File type dropdown at the bottom right corner.
Click on this dropdown. |
| 04:29 | It shows a list of file types or file extensions in which we can save our file. |
| 04:35 | The default file type in LibreOffice Writer is ODF Text Document (.odt). |
| 04:42 | ODF stands for Open Document Format which is an open standard. |
| 04:48 | It is also accepted by the Government of India policy on open standards in e-Governance. |
| 04:55 | I will click on the ODF Text Document option to save my file. |
| 05:00 | Do likewise on your machine. |
| 05:02 | Click on the Save button at the top right corner of the dialog box. |
| 05:07 | We will be redirected back to the Writer window. |
| 05:12 | Observe the change in the title bar now.
It has changed to Resume.odt |
| 05:18 | Besides saving in dot odt format, we can also save our file in dot doc and in dot docx formats. |
| 05:28 | Files with these formats can be opened later in MS Word application. |
| 05:34 | Now, we will save the same file as a docx file. |
| 05:39 | Go to File menu in the menu bar and then click on the Save As option. |
| 05:45 | In the Save As dialog box, click on the File type dropdown at the bottom right corner. |
| 05:51 | Scroll down and select Word 2007 hyphen 365 (.docx) |
| 05:59 | Again choose the same file location to save. |
| 06:03 | Then click on the Save button at the top right corner of the dialog box. |
| 06:08 | If we save the file in any other file format, Confirm File Format dialog box opens up. |
| 06:15 | Put a check on “Ask when not saving in ODF or default format” option. |
| 06:21 | Then click on the Use Word 2007 hyphen 365 Format button. |
| 06:28 | We will be redirected back to the Writer window. |
| 06:32 | Observe the change in the title bar now.
It has changed to Resume.docx |
| 06:38 | The file can also be exported to PDF format. |
| 06:42 | Click on the Export Directly as PDF icon in the Standard toolbar. |
| 06:47 | Type a filename, choose a location and click on the Save button at the top right. |
| 06:53 | I will click on Cancel and show another way of saving the document in PDF format. |
| 07:00 | Click on the File menu in the menu bar and select Export As sub-menu option.
Then click on the Export as PDF option. |
| 07:11 | PDF options dialog box opens up. |
| 07:15 | In this dialog box, we will see various settings to customize the PDF option. |
| 07:21 | Keep the default settings as it is and click on the Export button at the bottom. |
| 07:27 | Type a filename, choose a location and click on the Save button at the top right. |
| 07:34 | A pdf file will be created in the selected location. |
| 07:38 | Another popular extension which opens in most applications, is dot rtf, the Rich Text Format. |
| 07:45 | We can save the file in dot html format also, which is a web page format. |
| 07:53 | This is done in the same way as explained above. |
| 07:57 | In the File type dropdown, scroll down and select HTML Document (Writer)(.html). |
| 08:05 | This option gives the dot html extension to the document. |
| 08:10 | Again choose the same file location to save.
Now click on the Save button at the top right corner of the dialog box. |
| 08:19 | The Confirm File Format dialog box opens. |
| 08:23 | Put a check on “Ask when not saving in ODF or default format” option. |
| 08:29 | Then click on the Use HTML Document (Writer) Format button. |
| 08:35 | We see that the file gets saved with dot html extension. |
| 08:40 | This format is used when we want to show our document as a web page. |
| 08:45 | It can be opened in any web browser. |
| 08:48 | Let's close this document by clicking on the File menu and then Close. |
| 08:53 | Next, we will learn how to open an existing document in LibreOffice Writer.
Let's open the document Resume.odt |
| 09:03 | Click on the Open File menu on the left of the LibreOffice interface. |
| 09:09 | The file browser dialog box opens up.
Go to the location where our file is saved. |
| 09:16 | Now in the list of filenames that appears, choose Resume.odt |
| 09:22 | Then click on the Open button at the top right corner. |
| 09:27 | The file Resume.odt opens in the Writer window. |
| 09:32 | Likewise, we can also open files with dot doc and dot docx extensions in Writer. |
| 09:39 | Next we will see how to modify a file and save it under the same filename. |
| 09:45 | So, first let us select the word RESUME. |
| 09:49 | To do so click the left mouse button and then drag it along the text.
This will select the text and highlight it. |
| 09:59 | Now release the left mouse button.
The text should still be highlighted. |
| 10:05 | Now, click on the Bold icon in the Formatting bar.
The text thus becomes bold. |
| 10:12 | Next, let us align the word RESUME to the centre of the page. |
| 10:17 | If you have resized your LibreOffice window, some of the icons may not be visible. |
| 10:23 | In that case, click on the double arrow icon at the end of the toolbars . |
| 10:29 | Click on the Align Center icon in the Formatting bar. |
| 10:34 | We see that the text gets aligned to the center of the page. |
| 10:38 | Now, let us increase the font size of the text. |
| 10:42 | So, click on the down arrow in the Font Size field in the Formatting bar. |
| 10:47 | In the dropdown, let us select 14.
The font size of the text increases to 14. |
| 10:56 | Next, let us change the Font we are using. |
| 11:00 | Click on the down arrow in the Font Name field in the Formatting bar. |
| 11:05 | In the dropdown, let us select Undotum.
The font name of the text has changed to Undotum. |
| 11:13 | Let us now save the changes that we have made.
To do so, press Ctrl + S keys together. |
| 11:22 | The file gets saved with the same filename even after the modification is done. |
| 11:27 | Let's close the document now. |
| 11:29 | Click on the File menu in the menu bar and then click on the Close option. |
| 11:35 | This brings us to the end of this spoken tutorial.
Let us summarize. |
| 11:41 | In this tutorial, we learnt: |
| 11:44 | About LibreOffice Writer |
| 11:47 | Various toolbars |
| 11:49 | How to open a new and an existing document |
| 11:53 | To save and close a document in Writer |
| 11:57 | To save as MS Word document |
| 12:00 | To export as a PDF document |
| 12:03 | As an assignment
Open a new document in Writer |
| 12:07 | Save it under the name practice.odt |
| 12:11 | Type the text “This is my first assignment” |
| 12:15 | Underline the text. |
| 12:17 | Increase the Font size to 16. Save and close the file. |
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