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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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