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− | ||Welcome to the '''Spoken tutorial''' on '''LibreOffice Writer'''. In this tutorial, we will learn about: | + | ||Welcome to the '''Spoken tutorial''' on '''LibreOffice Writer'''. In this tutorial, we will learn about: Introduction to Writer. |
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− | || | + | ||Various '''tool bars''' in Writer |
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− | || | + | ||How to open a new document and an existing document |
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− | || | + | || How to '''save''' a document and |
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− | + | '''Ubuntu Linux 10.04''' as our '''operating system''' and | |
− | + | '''LibreOffice Suite''' version '''3.3.4'''. | |
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− | || | + | || Introduction to '''Writer'''. * Various toolbars in Writer. |
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− | || | + | || How to open a new document and an existing document on Writer. * How to save a document on Writer. |
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||The Spoken Tutorial Project team: | ||The Spoken Tutorial Project team: | ||
− | + | conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. | |
− | + | Gives certificates for those who pass an online test. | |
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− | ||For more details, please write to: | + | ||For more details, please write to: '''contact@spoken-tutorial.org''' |
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Revision as of 17:29, 26 October 2016
Resources for recording Introduction to Writer
Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer. In this tutorial, we will learn about: Introduction to Writer. |
00:10 | Various tool bars in Writer |
00:13 | How to open a new document and an existing document |
00:17 | How to save a document and |
00:20 | How to close a document in Writer. |
00:22 | LibreOffice Writer is the word processor component of the LibreOffice Suite. |
00:27 | It is the equivalent of Microsoft Word in Microsoft Office Suite. |
00:33 | It is a free and open source software; so it can be shared, modified and distributed without any restrictions. |
00:41 | Since it is free to share, it can be shared without needing to pay any license fees. |
00:47 | To get started with LibreOffice suite, you can use either Microsoft Windows 2000 and its higher versions like MS Windows XP or MS Windows 7 or you can use GNU/Linux as your Operating System. |
01:04 | Here, we are using:
Ubuntu Linux 10.04 as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4. |
01:16 | If you do not have "LibreOffice Suite" installed, "Writer" can be installed by using Synaptic Package Manager. |
01:24 | For more information on Synaptic Package Manager, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials
and download LibreOffice Suite by following the instructions on this website. |
01:37 | Detailed instructions are available in the first tutorial of LibreOffice Suite. |
01:43 | Remember, when installing, use the Complete option to install Writer. |
01:50 | If you have already installed LibreOffice Suite, |
01:54 | you will find LibreOffice Writer by clicking on the Applications option at the top left corner of your screen |
02:02 | and then clicking on Office and then on the LibreOffice option. |
02:08 | A new dialog-box opens up with various LibreOffice components. |
02:13 | In order to access LibreOffice Writer, click on the Text Document option which is the word processor component of the suite. |
02:23 | This will open an empty document in the main Writer window. |
02:28 | The Writer window has various tool bars like the title bar, |
02:33 | the menu bar, the standard toolbar, |
02:36 | the formatting bar and the status bar which have the most commonly used options which we will learn about, as the tutorials progress. |
02:47 | Now, let us start the tutorial by learning how to open a new document in 'Writer'. |
02:53 | You can open a new document by clicking on the New icon in the standard toolbar |
03:00 | or by clicking on the File option in the menu bar |
03:05 | and then clicking on the New option and then finally clicking on the Text document option. |
03:12 | You see that a new Writer window opens up in both the cases. |
03:17 | Now, type some text in the editor area. |
03:21 | So, we will type: "RESUME". |
03:24 | Once done writing your document, you should save it for future use. |
03:29 | To save this file, click on File in the menu bar |
03:33 | and then click on the Save As option. |
03:36 | A new dialog-box appears on the screen where you are required to enter the name of your file, under the Name field. |
03:44 | So, enter the name of the file as "resume". |
03:48 | Below the Name field, you have the Save in folder |
03:53 | field where you are required to enter the folder name which will contain your saved file. |
03:58 | So, click on the down-arrow in the Save in folder field. |
04:02 | You see a list of folders appears in the menu where you can save your file. |
04:08 | Now, let us click on the Desktop option. The file will be saved on the desktop. |
04:14 | You can also click on Browse for other folders |
04:18 | and choose the folder in which you want to save your document. |
04:23 | Now click on the File type option in the dialog-box. |
04:27 | It shows you a list of file type options or file extensions under which you can save your file. |
04:34 | The default file type in 'LibreOffice Writer' is the ODF Text Document which provides the extension dot odt. |
04:45 | ODT belongs to the Open Document Format or the ODF format which is a globally accepted open standard for word documents. |
04:56 | It is also accepted by the Government of India policy on open standards in e-Governance |
05:04 | Besides saving as dot odt text documents, which can be opened in LibreOffice Writer, |
05:11 | you can also save your file as dot doc and as dot docx format which can be opened in the MS Office Word program. |
05:23 | Another popular file extension which opens in most programs is dot rtf which is the Rich Text Format. |
05:33 | Now, click on the ODF Text Document option. |
05:37 | You see that the file type- ODF Text Document and within brackets dot odt, gets displayed next to the File type' option. |
05:48 | Now click on the Save button. |
05:50 | This takes you back to the Writer window with the filename and the extension of your choice on the title bar. |
05:58 | You are now ready to write a text document in Writer window. |
06:03 | In addition to the formats discussed above, the Writer documents can also be saved in dot html' format which is a web-page format. |
06:13 | This is done in the same way as explained before. |
06:17 | So, click on the File option in the menu bar and then click on the Save As option. |
06:24 | Now, click on the File Type option and then click on the HTML Document and within braces 'Open Office dot org Writer' option. |
06:35 | This option gives the dot html extension to the document. |
06:40 | Click on the Save button. |
06:42 | Now, put a check on the "Ask when not saving in ODF format"option in the dialog-box. |
06:50 | Finally, click on the "Keep Current Format" option. |
06:55 | You see that the document gets saved with dot html extension. |
07:00 | The document can also be exported to 'PDF' format by simply clicking on the Export Directly as PDF option in the standard toolbar. |
07:10 | As before, choose the location where you wish to save. |
07:15 | Alternately, you can do so by clicking on the File option in the menu bar and then clicking on the Export as pdf option. |
07:24 | In the dialog-box which appears ,click on Export and after that click on the Save button. |
07:32 | A pdf file will be created. |
07:35 | Let's close this document by clicking on File and then Close. |
07:40 | Next, we will learn how to open an existing document in 'LibreOffice Writer'. |
07:47 | Let's open the document 'Resume.odt'. |
07:51 | To open an existing document, click on the File menu in the menu bar at the top and then click on the Open option. |
08:00 | You see that a dialog-box appears on the screen. |
08:04 | Here, find the folder where you saved your document. |
08:08 | So, click on the small pencil button at the top left corner of the dialog-box. |
08:14 | It has the name, Type a file Name. |
08:16 | This opens a Location Bar field. |
08:19 | Here, type the name of the file you are looking for. |
08:24 | So, we write the name of the file as "resume". |
08:27 | Now, the list which appears with resume as the file name, choose resume dot odt. |
08:34 | Now, click on the Open button. |
08:37 | You see that the file 'resume.odt' opens. |
08:41 | Alternately, you can open an existing file by clicking on the Open icon in the toolbar at the top and doing the further process in the same manner. |
08:52 | You can also open files in Writer with dot doc and dot docx extensions which are used by Microsoft Word. |
09:03 | Next you will see how to modify a file and save it under the same file name. |
09:10 | So, first select the text "RESUME" by clicking on the left mouse button and then dragging it along the text. |
09:17 | This will select the text and highlight it. Now release the left mouse button. |
09:24 | The text should still be highlighted. |
09:26 | Now, click on the Bold icon in the standard toolbar. The text thus becomes bold. |
09:33 | In order to align this text to the centre of the page, click on the Centered icon in the toolbar. |
09:41 | You see that the text gets centrally aligned on the page. |
09:45 | Now, let us increase the font size of the text. |
09:48 | So, click on the down-arrow in the Font Size field in the toolbar. |
09:53 | In the drop-down menu,let us click on 14. |
09:57 | So, the font size of the text increases to 14. |
10:01 | Now, click on the down-arrow in the Font Name field and then select UnDotum as the font name. |
10:09 | Click on the Save icon in the toolbar. |
10:13 | So, you see that the file gets saved under the same file name even after the modification is done. |
10:21 | Once you have saved your document and you wish to close it, |
10:25 | just click on the File menu in the menu bar and click on the Close option. This closes your file. |
10:33 | This brings us to the end of the spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer. To summarize, we learned about: |
10:43 | Introduction to Writer. * Various toolbars in Writer. |
10:45 | How to open a new document and an existing document on Writer. * How to save a document on Writer. |
10:52 | How to close a document on Writer. |
10:55 | COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT- Open a new document in Writer. |
11:01 | Save it under the name 'practice.odt'. |
11:05 | Write the text "This is my first assignment". |
11:08 | Save the file.
Underline the text. Increase the font size to 16. Close the file. |
11:18 | Watch the video available at the following link. It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. |
11:24 | If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
11:29 | The Spoken Tutorial Project team:
conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. Gives certificates for those who pass an online test. |
11:38 | For more details, please write to: contact@spoken-tutorial.org |
11:45 | Spoken Tutorial project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project. |
11:48 | It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. |
11:56 | More information on this mission is available at: spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro. |
12:07 | This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt.Ltd. Thanks for joining. |
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