LibreOffice-Suite-Writer/C4/Creating-newsletter/English

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Show Slide Number 1 TITLE	Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer- Creating Newsletters with Multiple Columns.
Show Slide Number 2 Learning Objectives How to Create Newsletters in LibreOffice Writer Few operations which can be performed on them.	In this tutorial we will learn how to create newsletters in LibreOffice Writer and a few operations that can be performed on them.
Show Slide Number 3	Here we are using Ubuntu Linux 10.04 as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
Show Slide Number 4 NEWSLETTER - used as a publication. - for eg: periodical, pamphlet etc. - has multiple columns. - improves readability.	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. It has multiple columns as sections and makes it easier for the reader to go through different articles in these sections.
Click on “File”>>“New”>>“Text Document”	Using LibreOffice Writer one can create newsletters which make reading of articles much easier and faster. Lets open a new text document by clicking on “File”, “New” and “Text Document” option.
Click File >> Save as >> type “Newsletter” in filename >> Click “Save”.	Save this document with filename “Newsletter”.
Point to “Newsletter” in the Title bar.	So we have a new text document named “Newsletter”.
Click on “Format”->click on “Columns”	Now lets insert columns into our document. To do so, first click on the “Format” button in the menu bar and then click on “Columns”.
Point to “Setting”, “Width and spacing”, “Separator line”.	A dialog box appears with various options - selecting the number of columns you want, setting the width and spacing of these columns as well as setting the various properties of the separator lines.
Type “2” in the “Columns” field.	We will select two columns for the newsletter document by increasing the column field value to “2”.
Point to the 5 formats on the right.	The five icons beside the column field show you the preview of the various formats available.
Click on the second format from left. Click on “OK”.	So lets click on the second format. Lets keep all the other values which define the property of the columns as default. And click on the “OK” button.
Point to the 2 columns in the text area.	You see that 2 columns get displayed in the text area.
Bring cursor to first column at the top. Type “NATURE”>>select “NATURE” >>click on “Bold >>set font size to “15”. Copy paste the text in 1st attachment.	Let us write an article in our first column. We will give its heading as “Nature” in bold text with font size 15. And below that we will write an article on it.
Point to the second column where the text ended.	You see that the cursor automatically goes to the next column after it reaches the end of the first column.
Copy paste the attached “image file” and resize it so that it fits in the 1st column.	You can even insert a picture in the column and resize it so that it fits into the column.
Go to the second column where the text ended. Enter 2 times.	Now after leaving out some space you can write another article into the column.
Write “SPORTS”>>select “SPORTS”>>click on “Bold>>set font size to “15”. Copy paste the text in 2nd attachment.	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.
Point to the 2 columns. Slowly scroll up and down to display both the articles.	So you see - columns make it easier for the reader to go through multiple articles.
Delete some sentences from the first column so that there is no text in the second column. Delete the article “SPORTS” and the inserted image. And place the cursor in the 1st column.	Let us delete some sentences so that our article fits in the first column only.
Click on “Insert”->click on “Manual Break”.	Then, to access the further columns click on the “Insert” button and then on “Manual Break”.
Click on “Column break”->Click on the “OK” button.	In the dialog box which appears, click on the “Column break” checkbox and then click on the “OK” button.
Point to the second column on page 1. Now paste the “SPORTS” article again.	You see that the cursor comes on the next column automatically. So you can start writing another article in this new column.
Point to “Align left”,”Align right”,”Background Color”, “Highlighting” in the toolbar.	All the formatting options like “Align left”, “Align right”, adding “Background Color” to the text, “Highlighting” the text and many other features can be added to the text to make it attractive.
Select a portion of text. Click on “Background Color”->click on “Light green”. Point to the background colour.	For example, we select the portion of the text to which we want to apply a background color. Now click on the “Background Color” icon in the toolbar and then click on “Green 4”. We see that the background color of the selected text changes to light green.
	Like wise you can give different background colors to different parts of the text.
Click on the “Text” option in the drawing toolbar below”	You can even add banners to the newsletter by first clicking on the “Text” option in the drawing toolbar.
Place the textbox anywhere where there is no text.	Now place the textbox anywhere in the document where there is no written text. Inside the textbox you can write any text which will act as banners or ads.
Type “This is a newsletter” inside the textbox.	So let us type some text like “This is a newsletter”.
Right click on “This is a newsletter”->click on “Text”.	You can even add effects to this text. For example, first right click on the text and then click on the “Text” option in the menu.
Point to “Text”, “Text Animation”. Click on “Text Animation”	A dialog box appears which has tabs namely “Text” and “Text Animation”. Click on the “Text Animation” tab.
Click on down arrow under “Effects”->point to the various options.	In the “Effects” field under this tab there are various options.
Click on “Blink”->click on “OK”.	In order to blink the text in the newsletter, we click on the “Blink” option And finally click on the “OK” button.
Point to the text.	We see that the text “This is a newsletter” constantly blinks in the document. Similarly, various such effects and graphics can be given to the text.
Click on “Insert”->click on “Manual Break”.	Now for writing a new article on the next page, you need to first click on the “Insert” button And then click on the “Manual Break” option.
Click on “Page break”->Click on the “OK” button.	In the dialog box which appears, click on the “Page break” radiobutton. And finally click on the “OK” button.
Point to the 2 columns in this page. Go back to the previous page.	You see that the cursor comes on the next page. This page contains the same column format as on the previous page.
Select a portion of text on page1. Click on “Tools” in the menubar.	For maintaining a word count in your article, first select a portion of your text or the entire document. Now click on the “Tools” option in the menu bar.
Click on “Word Count”	Now click on the “Word Count” option in the dropdown box.
Point to the dialog box. Point to the relevant options according to the narration.	A dialog box appears which shows you the word count of current selection and the whole document as well. It also shows the total count of characters in your entire document as well as in the selected text.
Click on “AutoSpellcheck” in the toolbar.	The spell check can be done automatically while writing the document. Click on the “AutoSpellcheck” icon in the toolbar.
Type “ CAAT”	Now while writing the article, if there are any spelling mistakes, then Writer automatically shows them by underlining the word with a red line. 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.
Point to the red line. Correct it to “CAT”.	But when we correct the word, the red line disappears.
	Hence,we see that all the formatting options discussed in the previous tutorials can be applied in newsletters, too.
Show Slide number 5 SUMMARY	This brings us to the end of this spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer. 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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