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Narration
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Welcome to the tutorial on Wordprocessor Basics
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Learning Objectives
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In this tutorial we will learn :
Using Libre Office with Orca screen reader
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System Requirements
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To record this tutorial, I am using:
Orca screen reader on Ubuntu 12.04 Operating System.
Libre office
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Start Orca
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Press alt + f2 to get to the run dialog and enter Orca.
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Go to applications menu
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- Press alt + f1
- Keep pressing the down arrow till you locate the office sub menu.
- Open the sub menu
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Locate Libre Office
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- Press the up arrow till you locate the Libre office word processor
- Hit enter.
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- We hear Orca telling us that Libre office writer is opened
- It is opened with a blank document.
- The actual name of the word processor is "Libre Office Writer".
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Actually, Orca did tell us that the document is called Untitled1.
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Formatting in Libre office
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Suppose we are writing report on Orca screen reader.
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Lets see how text can be aligned in the document.
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- Let's create a title for our report.
- A heading is generally aligned to the center
- Text for a title is mostly in bold letters.
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So let's do it for our document as well.
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- Press Control + e to switch into center alignment mode.
- As you heard, Orca responded by saying "centered on".
- Similarly you can press control + r for right alignment,
- control + L for left alignment and control + j for justified.
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- Note that this is a keyboard shortcut for the word processor
- This is not an Orca command.
- Yet the change in the alignment is reported to us by Orca
- Now whatever you type will appear at the center.
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Make it Bold
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- We will also turn on the bold lettering mode.
- For this we will press control + b.
- There you are, Orca responded by telling us that the bold mode is on.
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Other formats
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- Similarly you can underline text by pressing control + u
- italicize text by pressing control + i.
- These commands are toggles.
- This means pressing the control + b will toggle on status off
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Create a Title
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- Lets write "Orca, a FOSS based screen reader"
- Hit enter 2 times to create some blank space.
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Now we are going to write the actual content.
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- Let's shift to left alignment.
- Press Control + l.
- You heard Orca telling us that the center alignment mode is off
- Now the text we type will be aligned left.
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- This means that every line will start from the left margin.
- Lets type some introductory matter to our report -
"Orca is a screen reader for GNU/Linux based desktop.
Just like the Operating System, Orca is also free.
It comes bundled with most Distributions of GNU/Linux such as
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Now what if we want to confirm our text formatting and alignment?
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Well, Orca has a keyboard command for this too.
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Let's try asking Orca to tell us the format of our heading.
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Press up arrow till you hear our first line that says
"Orca, a FOSS based screen reader".
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- To be on the safer side, Press the Home key to be at the start of line.
- To hear the formatting information we press Insert + f
- Laptop users will have to replace insert with caps-lock.
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- Wow, so Orca tells us that the current word in focus is aligned center
- The size of the text is 12 point and that it is bold.
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Increase the font size of this line to make it look more evident.
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Go through the tutorial on cut, copy and paste with orca
you will remember that
- We used the command Shift + End to select a line.
- So lets use that same command here.
- As you heard, Orca informs us that the line is selected.
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- Now press the popup button on your computer.
- Between the right side control and alt key .
- Now what we have is a popup menu which provides us many options.
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- Keep pressing the down arrow till we reach Size option.
- Now hit the right arrow to open the sub menu.
- Keep pressing down arrow until you hear 14 as the size.
- Now hit enter to set this size.
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Format information
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- Press the down arrow once and come back to the previous line using up arrow.
- Now press insert + f.
- So Orca now tells us the formatting information
- We can figure out that the font size has indeed changed!
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Finally, let's save the file.
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- You can open the file menu by pressing Alt + f
- Then locate the 'Save' button.
- This is what we did in the copy paste tutorial.
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Shortcut for Save
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Press Control + s to open the save dialog.
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Default name
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- The default file name is Untitled1 .
- Since it is selected, we can press Backspace once to delete that name
- Now type whatever name pleases you.
- I will enter “Orca_report” in this case.
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Default Format
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- The default format is ODT meaning Open Document Text .
- We can save it in different formats which outside the scope of this tutorial.
- Hit Enter to confirm the name and save the file.
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Quit word processor
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Go to file menu and press the up arrow to find the exit option.
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Summary
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So in this tutorial we have seen :
Orca helps us to make neatly formatted
documents.
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- Watch the video available at the link shown below
- It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project
- If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it
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Spoken Tutorial Workshops
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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team
- Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials
- Gives certificates to those who pass an online test
- For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org
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Acknowledgement
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- Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project
- It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India
- More information on this Mission is available at: http://spoken-tutorial.org\NMEICT-Intro
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Thanks for joining
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- That’s it for this tutorial.
- In the next tutorial on detailed desktop overview, you will learn just that.
- Thank you for watching.
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