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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.
0:33	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 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 and click on the “Desktop” option.
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 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 above formats discussed,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 menubar 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 tool bar.
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	Lets close this document by click on “File” and then “Close”.
07:40	Next we will learn how to open an existing document in LibreOffice Writer.
07:47	Lets open the document “Resume.odt.
07:51	To open an existing document, click on the “File” menu in the menubar 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 file names, 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.
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