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

||Find and Replace

||Spellcheck

||AutoCorrect

|| Here we are using Ubuntu Linux 10.04 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.

||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.

||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 the text.

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

||They are “Attributes”,”Format” and “No Format”.

|| After learning about “Find and Replace” feature, we will now learn about how to check spellings in LibreOffice Writer using “Spellcheck”.

||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.

||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”.

|| 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”.

|| 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.

||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.

|| 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 the word “housewife” and then click on the “Change” button.

||Click on “OK” in the small dialog box that appears.

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

||The “AutoCorrect” feature is an extension of Spellcheck.

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

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

||These options are selected by clicking on the “AutoCorrect Options”.  

|| 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.

|| Click on “Format” button on the menu bar.

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

|| Click on the “Options” tab.

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

||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”

|| 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”.

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

||Find and Replace

||Spell check

||AutoCorrect  

||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.

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

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