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|| VISUAL CUE

|| NARRATION

|| Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer- Creating Newsletters with Multiple Columns.

|| In this tutorial we will learn how to create newsletters in LibreOffice Writer and a few operations that can be performed on them.

|| Here we are using Ubuntu Linux 10.04 as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.  

|| 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.

|| Using LibreOffice Writer one can create newsletters which make reading of articles much easier and faster.

||Lets open a new text document by clicking on “File”, “New” and “Text Document” option.

|| Save this document with filename “Newsletter”.  

|| So we have a new text document named “Newsletter”.

|| Now lets insert columns into our document.

||To do so, first click on the “Format” button in the menu bar and then click on “Columns”.

|| A dialog box appears with various options -  

||selecting the number of columns you want,  

||setting the width and spacing of these columns  

||as well as setting the various properties of the separator lines.

|| We will select two columns for the newsletter document by increasing the column field value to “2”.

|| The five icons besides the column field show you the preview of the various formats available.

|| So lets click on the second format.

||Lets keep all the other values which define the property of the columns as default.

||And click on the “OK” button.

||We will give its heading as “Nature” in bold text with font size 15.

||And below that we will write an article on it.

|| Now after leaving out some spaces you can write another article into the column.

|| 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.

|| So you see - columns make it easier for the reader to go through multiple articles.

|| Then, to access the further columns click on the “Insert” button and then click on “Manual Break”.

|| In the dialog box which appears, click on the “Column break” button and then click on the “OK” button.

||So you can start writing another article in this column.

|| All the formatting options like  

||“Align left”, “Align right”,  

||adding “Background Color” to the text,  

||“Highlighting” the text and many other features  

||Now click on the “Background Color” icon in the toolbar and then click on “Green 4”.

|| Like wise you can give different background colors to different parts of the text.

|| You can even add banners to the newsletter by first clicking on the “Text” option in the drawing toolbar.

|| Now place the textbox anywhere in the document where there is no written text.

||Inside the textbox you can write any text which will act as a banner or ads.

|| So let us type some text like “This is a newsletter”.

||For example, first right click on the text and then click on the “Text” option in the menu.

|| A dialog box appears which has tabs namely “Text” and “Text Animation”.

||Click on the “Text Animation” tab.

|| In the “Effects” field under this tab there are various options.

|| In order to blink the text in the newsletter, we click on the “Blink” option  

||And finally click on the “OK” button.

|| We see that the text “This is a newsletter” constantly blinks in the document.

||Similarly, various such effects and graphics can be given to the text.

|| Now for writing a new article on the next page, you need to first click on the “Insert” button  

||And then click on the “Manual Break” option.

|| In the dialog box which appears, click on the “Page break” button.

||And finally click on the “OK” button.

||Now click on the “Tools” option in the menu bar.

|| Now click on the “Word Count” option in the dropdown box.

|| A dialog box appears which shows you the word count of current selection and the whole document as well.   

||Click on the “AutoSpellcheck” icon in the toolbar.  

|| Now while writing the article, if there are any spelling mistakes, then Writer automatically shows them by underlining the word with a red line.

||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.

|| But when we correct the word, the red line disappears.

|| Hence,we see that all the formatting options discussed in the previous tutorials can be applied in newsletters, too.

||LibreOffice Writer.

||To summarise, we learned about how to Create Newsletters in LibreOffice Writer and few operations which can be performed on them.

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