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	Lets 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 lets 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 lets click on the second format.
01:59	Lets 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 textbox anywhere in the document where there is no written text.
04:24	Inside the textbox 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 dropdown 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 summarise, we learned about how to Create Newsletters in LibreOffice Writer and few operations which can be performed on them.
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