LibreOffice-Suite-Writer/C4/Creating-newsletter/English-timed

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: Ubuntu Linux 10.04 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 column field value to 2.
01:49	The five icons besides the column 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,
03:36	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 Effects 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.
06:27	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 newsletters too.
07:01	This brings us to the end of this spoken tutorial on
07:04	'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.
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