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Revision as of 17:06, 1 January 2016

Time Narration
00:00 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer- Creating Newsletters with Multiple Columns.
00:07 In this tutorial, we will learn how to create newsletters in LibreOffice Writer and a few operations that can be performed on them.
00:17 Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
00:27 A newsletter is used as a publication which gets circulated out to its subscribers in a regular time interval. For example - a periodical, a pamphlet and many more.
00:39 It has multiple columns as sections and makes it easier for the reader to go through different articles in these sections.
00:47 Using LibreOffice Writer, one can create newsletters which make reading of articles much easier and faster.
00:55 Let's open a new text document by clicking on File >> New and Text Document option.
01:03 Save this document with filename Newsletter.
01:13 So, we have a new text document named Newsletter.
01:17 Now, let's insert columns into our document.
01:20 To do so, first click on the Format button in the menu bar and then click on Columns.
01:27 A dialog-box appears with various options -
01:31 * selecting the number of columns you want
01:34 * setting the width and spacing of these columns
01:37 as well as * setting the various properties of the separator lines.
01:42 We will select two columns for the newsletter document by increasing the Columns field value to 2.
01:49 The five icons besides the Columns field show you the preview of the various formats available.
01:56 So, let's click on the second format.
01:59 Let's keep all the other values which define the property of the columns as default
02:05 and click on the OK button.
02:08 You see that 2 columns get displayed in the text area.
02:12 Let us write an article in our first column.
02:15 We will give its heading as Nature in bold text with font size 15.
02:21 And below that, we will write an article on it.
02:25 You see that the cursor automatically goes to the next column after it reaches the end of the first column.
02:33 You can even insert a picture in the column and resize it so that it fits into the column.
02:39 Now, after leaving out some spaces you can write another article into the column.
02:46 So, we will first give it a heading as Sports in bold text with font size 15 and below that we will write an article on it.
02:56 So, you see, columns make it easier for the reader to go through multiple articles.
03:02 Let us delete some sentences so that our article fits in the first column only.
03:08 Then, to access the further columns click on the Insert button and then click on Manual Break.
03:16 In the dialog-box which appears, click on the Column break button and then click on the OK button.
03:23 You see that the cursor comes on the next column automatically.
03:27 So, you can start writing another article in this column.
03:31 All the formatting options like -
03:33 Align left, Align right, adding Background Color to the text,
03:38 Highlighting the text and many other features
03:41 can be added to the text to make it attractive.
03:45 For example, we select the portion of the text to which we want to apply a background color.
03:51 Now, click on the Background Color icon in the toolbar and then click on Green 4.
03:59 We see that the background color of the selected text changes to light green.
04:05 Like wise you can give different background colors to different parts of the text.
04:10 You can even add banners to the newsletter by first clicking on the Text option in the drawing toolbar.
04:18 Now, place the text-box anywhere in the document where there is no written text.
04:24 Inside the text-box, you can write any text which will act as a banner or ads.
04:30 So, let us type some text, like "This is a newsletter".
04:35 You can even add effects to this text.
04:37 For example, first right-click on the text and then click on the Text option in the menu.
04:45 A dialog-box appears which has tabs namely Text and Text Animation.
04:50 Click on the Text Animation tab.
04:53 In the Effect field, under this tab, there are various options.
04:58 In order to blink the text in the newsletter, we click on the Blink option
05:04 and finally click on the OK button.
05:07 We see that the text "This is a newsletter" constantly blinks in the document.
05:13 Similarly, various such effects and graphics can be given to the text.
05:18 Now, for writing a new article on the next page, you need to first click on the Insert button
05:25 and then click on the Manual Break option.
05:29 In the dialog-box which appears, click on the Page break button
05:34 and finally click on the OK button.
05:37 You see that the cursor comes on the next page.
05:40 This page contains the same column format as on the previous page.
05:46 For maintaining a word count in your article, first select a portion of your text or the entire document.
05:53 Now, click on the Tools option in the menu bar.
05:57 Now, click on the Word Count option in the drop-down box.
06:02 A dialog-box appears which shows you the word count of current selection and the whole document as well.
06:10 It also shows the total count of characters in your entire document as well as in the selected text.
06:18 The spell check can be done automatically while writing the document.
06:23 Click on the AutoSpellcheck icon in the toolbar.
06:28 Now, while writing the article if there are any spelling mistakes then Writer automatically shows them by underlining the word with a red line.
06:37 For example, when we write the word Cat as C -A- A -T and press the space-bar, we see that a red line is displayed below it.
06:48 But when we correct the word, the red line disappears.
06:52 Hence, we see that all the formatting options discussed in the previous tutorials can be applied in the newsletters too.
07:01 This brings us to the end of this spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer.
07:06 To summarize, we learned about how to create Newsletters in LibreOffice Writer and few operations which can be performed on them.
07:17 Watch the video available at the following link.
07:21 It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.
07:24 If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
07:28 The Spoken Tutorial Project team:
07:31 * Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials.
07:34 * Gives certificates for those who pass an online test.
07:38 For more details, please write to:

contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org.

07:44 Spoken Tutorial project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.
07:48 It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
07:56 More information on this mission is available at:
08:00 spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro.
08:07 This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Thanks for joining.

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