LibreOffice-Suite-Writer/C2/Typing-text-and-basic-formatting/English

Resources for recording Typing text and Basic Formatting

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Show Slide Number 1 Title Slide	Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer – Typing the text and basic formatting.
Show Slide Number 2 Learning Objectives Aligning Text. Bullets and Numbering. Cut, Copy and Paste. Bold,Underline and Italics. Font name,Font size, Font color.	In this tutorial we will learn the following: Aligning Text in Writer Bullets and Numbering. Cut, Copy and Paste options in Writer. Bold,Underline and Italics options. Font name, Font size,Font color in Writer. Applying these features in the documents make them more attractive and much easier to read as compared to the documents which are in plain text.
Show Slide Number 3 OS and versions	Here we are using Ubuntu Linux 10.04 as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4
Open “resume.odt”	We will first learn about “Aligning Text” in Writer. You can open a new document of your choice in Writer and implement these features. Since we have already created a file with the filename “resume.odt” in the last tutorial we will open this file .
Point to the word “RESUME”. Point to “Centered” icon on the Formatting bar. Select the text. Point to “Align Left” icon on the Formatting bar.	We had previously typed the word “RESUME” and aligned it to the center of the page. So, lets select the word and click on “Align Left”. You will see that the word “RESUME” is left-aligned, meaning it is towards the left margin of the document page.
Point to “Align Right” icon on the Formatting bar.	If we click on “Align Right”, you will see that the word “RESUME” is now aligned to the right of the page.
Point to “Justify” icon on the Formatting bar.	If we click on “Justify”, you will see that the word “RESUME” is now aligned such that the text is uniformly placed between the right and left margins of the page. This feature is more obvious when you have a line or paragraph of text.
	Bullets and numbering are used when independent points have to be written. Each point starts with a bullet or a number. This way one can distinguish between different points written in the document.
Click on “Format”->Click “Bullets and Numbering”.	This is accessed by first clicking on the “Format” option in the menu bar and then clicking on “Bullets and Numbering”.
Click on “Bullets”,”Numbering type”,”Outline”,”Graphics”,”Position” and “Options”. Click on “Numbering type”.	The dialog box which you see after clicking on “Bullets and Numbering” option, provides you various styles under different tabs which you can apply on your document. Numbering is done in the same way, by selecting the numbering option and every line will start with a new number.
	So let us click on the second style under the “Numbering type” style. Now click on the “OK” button.
Point to “1.”	You are now ready to type your first statement.
Type “NAME: RAMESH” Press “Enter”.	So let us type here “NAME colon Ramesh”. Now press the “Enter” key on the keyboard.
Point to “2.”	Whenever you press the “Enter” key after typing a statement, you will see that a new bullet point or a new incremental number is created. There can be bullets within bullets as well as numbers within numbers depending upon the type of format you choose.
Type “FATHER’S NAME: MAHESH”. Press “Enter”. Type “MOTHER’S NAME: SHWETA” Press “Enter”.	So we type the second statement in the resume as “ FATHER’S NAME colon MAHESH”. Again press the “Enter” key and type “MOTHER’S NAME colon SHWETA”.
Type “FATHER’S OCCUPATION : GOVERNMENT SERVANT”. Press “Enter”. Type “MOTHER’S OCCUPATION: HOUSEWIFE”. Demonstrate in the above bullets.	Similarly, we type “FATHERS OCCUPATION colon GOVERNMENT SERVANT” and “MOTHERS OCCUPATION colon HOUSEWIFE” as different points. You can use Tab and shift tab keys to increase and decrease the indent for the bullets respectively.
Click “Enter”. Place the cursor next to HOUSEWIFE. Click on “Numbering Off” in the dialog box.	In order to turn off the “Bullets and Numbering” option, first place the cursor next to the word HOUSEWIFE and click on the “Enter” key first and then click on the “ Numbering Off” option in the “Bullets and Numbering” dialog box.
	You see that the bullet style is no longer available for the new text which you will type.
Point to both the occurrences of “NAME”	Notice that we have typed the word “NAME” twice in our document. Instead of typing the same text all over again, we can use the “Copy” and “Paste” option in Writer.
Delete the word “NAME” in “MOTHER’S NAME”	So let us learn how to do this. Now we delete the word “NAME” from the text “MOTHER’S NAME” and rewrite the word NAME using copy and paste options.
Select the word “NAME” in the text “ FATHER’S NAME”. Right click on mouse->click on “Copy”. Place the cursor after the word “MOTHER’S”->right click on mouse->Click on “Paste”. Point to “MOTHER’S NAME”	In the text “FATHER’S NAME”, first select the word “NAME” by dragging the cursor along the word ,”NAME”. Now right click on the mouse and click on the “Copy” option. Place the cursor after the word “MOTHER’S”. Again right click on the mouse and click on the “Paste” option. We see that the word “NAME” gets pasted automatically. There are shortcut keys available for these options as well - CTRL+C to copy and CTRL+V to paste. This feature is very useful while writing a large amount of similar text in documents, where you don’t need to write the entire text repeatedly.
	You can also use the “Cut” and “paste” feature in order to move a text from one place to another in a document. Now let us see how to do so.
Delete the word “NAME” after the word “MOTHER’S” Select the word “NAME” after the word “FATHER’S”. Right click on mouse->click on “Cut” Place cursor after the word “MOTHER’S”->right click on the mouse->click on “Paste”. Point to “MOTHER’S NAME”.	Let us first delete the word “NAME” after the word “MOTHER’S”. In order to cut and paste this word, first select the word, “NAME” in the statement, “FATHERS NAME”. Right click on the mouse and then click on the “Cut” option. Notice that the word “NAME” is no longer there next to the word “FATHER'S”, which means it has be cut or deleted. Now place the cursor after the word “MOTHER’S ” and right click on the mouse. Click on the “Paste” option. You see that the word is now pasted here next to the word “MOTHER'S”. The shortcut key to cut is - CTRL+X.
	Hence, the only difference between copying and cutting the text is that the “Copy” option keeps the original word at its place from where it was copied whereas the “Cut” option removes it completely from its original place. Lets paste the word “name” next to Father’s as well and continue.
Type “EDUCATION DETAILS”.	Lets type a new heading as “EDUCATION DETAILS”.
	After learning about “Bullets and Numbering” in Writer, we will now learn how the “Font name” and the “Font size” of any text can be changed or applied.
Point to “Font Name”.	Now in the format tool bar at the top, we have a field, named “Font Name”. The font name is usually set as “Liberation Serif” by default.
Select “EDUCATION DETAILS”->click on “Font Name”	Font Name is used to select and change the type of font you wish to type your text in. For example, let us give the heading, “Education Details” a different font style and font size. So first select the text, “Education details”, then click on the down arrow in the “Font Name” field.
Drag cursor along all options in the menu. Click on “Liberation Sans”. Point to “EDUCATION DETAILS”.	You see a wide variety of font name options in the drop down menu. Search for “Liberation Sans” and simply click on it. You see that the font of the selected text changes.
Point to “Font Size”	Beside the “Font Name” field , we have the “Font Size” field. As the name suggests, “Font Size” is used to increase or decrease the size of either the selected text or sets the size of the font of the new text which you wish to type.
Select “EDUCATION DETAILS”. Point to “12” in the “Font Size” box. Click on “Font Size”->click on “11”. Point to “EDUCATION DETAILS”.	So, we first select the text “EDUCATION DETAILS” The Font Size shown currently is 12. Now click on the down arrow in the “Font Size” field and then click on 11. You see that the font size of the text decreases. The Font Size can be increased in the same way.
Point to “Font Color”	After learning about the font size, we will see how to change the font color in Writer.
Select the text “EDUCATION DETAILS”. click on 'Font Color' and click on “Light green” option. Point to “EDUCATION DETAILS”.	The “Font Color” is used to select the color of the text in which your document or a few lines are typed. For example, let us color the heading “EDUCATION DETAILS”. So again select the text “EDUCATION DETAILS”. Now click on the down arrow in the “Font Color” option in the toolbar and then click on the light green box for applying the “Light green” colour to the the text. So you see that the heading is now green in color.
Point to “Bold”, “Italic” and “Underline”.	Next to the font size option you will see three options namely “Bold” “Italic” and “Underline”. As the name suggests, these will make your text either bold or italic or underlined.
Select “EDUCATION DETAILS”. click on “Bold”	So first select the heading “EDUCATION DETAILS”. Now click on the 'Bold' icon to make the text bold. You see that the selected text becomes bold.
Click on “Italic”	Similarly, if you click on the “Italic” icon it converts the text to italic.
Click on “Underline”. Click on “Italics” option to deselect it->click on “Bold” and “Underlined”. Point to “EDUCATION DETAILS”.	Clicking on the 'Underline' icon will underline your text. You see that the selected text is now underlined. In order to keep the heading “bold” and “underlined”, deselect the “italic” option by clicking on it again and keep the other two options selected. Hence the heading is now bold as well as underlined.
Show Slide number 4 SUMMARY: 1.Aligning Text. 2.Bullets and Numbering. 3.Cut,Copy and Paste. 4.Bold,Underline and Italics. 5.Font name,Font size, Font color.	This brings us to the end of the spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer To summarize, we learned about: Aligning Text in Writer Bullets and Numbering. Cut, Copy and Paste options in Writer. Bold, Underline and Italics options. Font name, Font size, Font color in Writer.
Show Slide number 5 COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT 1. Activate bullets and numbering. 2. Choose a style and write few points. 3. Select some text and change its font name to “Free Sans”and the font size to “16”. 4. Make the text “Italics”. 5. Change the font color to red.	COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT Activate bullets and numbering. Choose a style and write few points. Select some text and change its font name to“Free Sans”and the font size to “16”. Make the text “Italics”. Change the font color to red.
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