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Show Slide Number 1 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Introduction to LibreOffice Writer. Learning Objectives: 1. Introduction to Writer. 2. Various tool bars in Writer. 3. Open a new document and an existing document. 4. Save a document. 5. Close a document.	Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Introduction to LibreOffice Writer. In this tutorial we will learn about: Introduction to Writer. Various tool bars in Writer How to open a new document and an existing document How to save a document and How to close a document in Writer.
Show Slide Number 2 WHAT IS LibreOffice Writer?	LibreOffice Writer is the word processor component of the LibreOffice Suite. It is the equivalent of Microsoft Word in Microsoft Office Suite. It is a free and open source software so it can be shared, modified and distributed without any restrictions. Since it is free to share,it can be shared without needing to pay any license fees.
Show Slide Number 3 OS and versions	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.
Show Slide Number 4 OS and versions	Here we are using Ubuntu Linux 10.04 as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4
Show slide	If you do not have LibreOffice Suite installed, Writer can be installed by using Synaptic Package Manager. For more information on Synaptic Package Manager,please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website.
Show slide	And download LibreOffice Suite by following the instructions on this website.
Goto www.libreoffice.org	Detailed instructions are available in the first tutorial of LibreOffice Suite. Remember, when installing, use the 'Complete' option to install 'Writer'.
Click on “Applications” ->click on “Office”->click on “Text Document”	If you have already installed LibreOffice Suite, you will find LibreOffice Writer by clicking on the “Applications” option at the top left corner of your screen and then clicking on “Office” and then on the “LibreOffice” option.
Click on “Text Document”.	A new dialog box opens up with various LibreOffice components. In order to access LibreOffice Writer,click on the “Text Document” option which is the word processor component of the suite.
Show main writer window. Drag cursor along all options in the “title bar”,”menubar”,”standard toolbar”,”formatting bar”,”status bar”	This will open an empty document in the main Writer window. The Writer window has various tool bars like the title bar,the menu bar,the standard toolbar,the formatting bar and the status bar which have the most commonly used options which we will learn about as the tutorials progress.
Click on “New” icon in the standard toolbar. Click on “File”->click on “New”->Click on “Text document”.	Now let us start the tutorial by learning how to open a new document in Writer. You can open a new document by clicking on the “New” icon in the standard toolbar or by clicking on the “File” option in the menu bar and then clicking on the “New” option and then finally clicking on the “Text document” option.
	You see that a new Writer window opens up in both the cases.
Write “RESUME” in the text editor area.	Now type some text in the editor area. So we will type,“RESUME”.
Click on “File”->Click on “Save As”.	Once done writing your document, you should save it for future use. To save this file , click on “File” in the menu bar and then click on the “Save As” option.
Point to “Name”. Write “resume” in the “Name” field.	A dialog box appears on the screen where you are required to enter the name of your file under the “Name” field. So enter the name of the file as “resume”.
Point to “Save in folder” Click on down arrow in the “Save in folder” ->drag cursor across all options ->click on “Desktop”.	Below the “Name” field you have the “Save in folder” field where you are required to enter the folder name which will contain your saved file. So click on the down arrow in the “Save in folder” field and click on the “Desktop” option. You see a list of folders appears in the menu where you can save your file. Now let us click on the “Desktop”option. The file will be saved on the desktop.
Click on “Browse for other folders”.	You can also click on “Browse for other folders” and choose the folder in which you want to save your document.
Click on “File type” Drag the cursor along the menu which appears.	Now click on the “File type” option in the dialog box. It shows you a list of file type options or file extensions under which you can save your file.
Point to “ODF Text Document” and then on “odt”.	The default file type in LibreOffice Writer is the “ODF Text Document” which provides the extension “dot odt”. ODT belongs to the Open Document Format or the ODF format which is a globally accepted open standard for word documents. It is also accepted by the Government of India policy on 'open standards in e-Governance'
In the same drop down box->Scroll down and point to “Microsoft Word 97/200/XP(.doc)” and then point to “Microsoft Word 2007 XML(.docx)”	Besides saving as dot odt text documents, which can be opened in LibreOffice Writer,you can also save your file as dot doc and as dot docx format which can be opened in the MS Office Word program.
Point to “Rich Text Format(.rtf)” Click on the“ODF Text Document” option in the “File type” menu. Point to “ODF Text Document(.odt)” next to File type.	Another popular file extension which opens in most programs is dot rtf,which is the “rich text format”. Now click on the “ODF Text Document” option. You see that the file type, “ODF Text Document” and within brackets, dot “odt”gets displayed next to the “File type” option.
Click on “Save”.	Now click on the “Save” button.
Point to “resume.odt” in the title bar.	This takes you back to the Writer window with the filename and extension of your choice on the title bar. You are now ready to write a text document in Writer window.
Click on “File”->click on “Save As”->Click on “File type”->Click on “HTML Document (OpenOffice.org Writer) (.html)” Click on “Save” Put a check on “Ask when not saving in ODF format”. Click on “Keep Current Format” option. Point to file name in the title bar.	In addition to the above formats discussed,the Writer documents can also be saved in “dot html” format which is a web page format. This is done in the same way as explained before . So click on the “File” option in the menubar and then click on the “Save As” option. Now click on the ”File Type” option, and then click on the “HTML Document and within braces OpenOffice dot org Writer” option. This option gives the “dot html” extension to the document. Click on the “Save” button. Now put a check on the “Ask when not saving in ODF format”option in the dialog box. Finally click on the “Keep Current Format” option. You see that the document gets saved with dot html extension.
Click on “Export Directly as PDF”. Click on “File”->Click on “Export as pdf”->click on “Export”->Click on “Save”. Click on File >> Close.	The document can also be exported to PDF format by simply clicking on the “Export Directly as PDF”option in the standard tool bar. As before, choose the location where you wish to save. Alternately, you can do so by clicking on the “File” option in the menu bar and then clicking on the “Export as pdf” option. In the Dialog box which appears ,click on “Export”and after that click on the “Save” button. A pdf file will be created. Lets close this document by click on “File” and then “Close”.
	Next we will learn how to open an existing document in LibreOffice Writer. “ Lets open the document “Resume.odt."
Click on “File”->click on “Open” Click on “Type a file name” icon. Write “resume” in location bar. Click on “resume.odt”. Click on “Open”.	To open an existing document, click on the “File” menu in the menubar at the top and then click on the “Open” option. You see that a dialog box appears on the screen. Here find the folder where you saved your document. So click on the small pencil button at the top left corner of the dialog box. It has the name, “Type a file Name”. This opens a “Location Bar” field. Here, type the name of the file you are looking for. So we write the name of the file as “resume”. Now the list which appears with resume as file names, choose “resume dot odt” Now click on the “Open” button. You see that the file resume.odt opens.
Point to “Open” in the toolbar	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. You can also open files in Writer with “dot doc” and “dot docx” extensions which are used by Microsoft Word.
Left click on mouse->drag it along the text, “This is my resume”->release left mouse button. Click on the “Bold” icon in the standard tool bar. Click on the “Centered” icon.	Next you will see how to modify a file and save it under the same file name. So first select the text “RESUME” by clicking on the left mouse button and then dragging it along the text. This will select the text and highlight it. Now release the left mouse button. The text should still be highlighted. Now click on the “Bold” icon in the standard toolbar. The text thus becomes bold. In order to align this text to the centre of the page,click on the “Centered” icon in the toolbar. You see that the text gets centrally aligned on the page.
Select the text “RESUME”->click on “Font Size”->click on “14” Click on “Font Name”->click on “Ubuntu”	Now let us increase the font size of the text. So click on the down arrow in the “Font Size” field in the toolbar. In the drop down menu,let us click on “14”. So the font size of the text increases to “14”. Now click on the down arrow in the “Font Name” field and then select “UnDotum” as the font name.
Click on “Save”. Point to “resume.odt” in the title bar.	Click on the “Save” icon in the toolbar. So you see that the file gets saved under the same file name even after the modification is done.
Click on “File” ->click “Close”	Once you have saved your document and you wish to close it, just click on the “File”menu in the menu bar and click on the “Close” option. This closes your file.
Show Slide number 5 SUMMARY 1.Introduction to Writer. 2.Various toolbars in Writer. 3.How to open a new document and an existing document on Writer. 4.How to save a document on Writer. 5.How to close a document on Writer.	This brings us to the end of the spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer To summarize, we learned about: Introduction to Writer. Various toolbars in Writer. How to open a new document and an existing document on Writer. How to save a document on Writer. How to close a document on Writer.
Show Slide number 6 COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT 1. Open a new document in Writer. 2. Save it under the name “practice.odt” 3. Write the text “This is my first assignment” 4. Save the file. 5. Underline the text. 6. Increase the font size to 16. 7. Close the file.	COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT Open a new document in Writer. Save it under the name “practice.odt” Write the text “This is my first assignment” Save the file. Underline the text. Increase the font size to 16. Close the file.
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