1 00:00:01 --> 00:00:04 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer – 2 00:00:05 --> 00:00:09 In this tutorial we will learn about: Introduction to Writer. 3 00:00:10 --> 00:00:12 Various tool bars in Writer 4 00:00:13 --> 00:00:16 How to open a new document and an existing document 5 00:00:17 --> 00:00:19 How to save a document and 6 00:00:20 --> 00:00:21 How to close a document in Writer. 7 00:00:22 --> 00:00:26 LibreOffice Writer is the word processor component of the LibreOffice Suite. 8 00:00:27 --> 00:00:32 It is the equivalent of Microsoft Word in Microsoft Office Suite. 9 00:00:33 --> 00:00:40 It is a free and open source software so it can be shared, modified and distributed without any restrictions. 10 00:00:41 --> 00:00:46 Since it is free to share,it can be shared without needing to pay any license fees. 11 00:00:47 --> 00:01:03 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. 12 00:01:04 --> 00:01:10 Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system 13 00:01:11 --> 00:01:15 And LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4 14 00:01:16 --> 00:01:23 If you do not have LibreOffice Suite installed, Writer can be installed by using Synaptic Package Manager. 15 00:01:24 --> 00:01:36 For more information on Synaptic Package Manager,please refer to the Linux Tutorials and download LibreOffice Suite by following the instructions on this website. 16 00:01:37 --> 00:01:42 Detailed instructions are available in the first tutorial of LibreOffice Suite. 17 00:01:43 --> 00:01:49 Remember, when installing, use the Complete option to install Writer. 18 00:01:50 --> 00:02:01 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 19 00:02:02 --> 00:02:07 and then clicking on Office and then on the LibreOffice option. 20 00:02:08 --> 00:02:12 A new dialog box opens up with various LibreOffice components. 21 00:02:13 --> 00:02:22 In order to access LibreOffice Writer, click on the “Text Document” option, which is the word processor component of the suite. 22 00:02:23 --> 00:02:27 This will open an empty document in the main Writer window. 23 00:02:28 --> 00:02:32 The Writer window has various tool bars like the title bar, 24 00:02:33 --> 00:02:35 the menu bar, the standard toolbar, 25 00:02:36 --> 00:02:46 the formatting bar and the status bar which have the most commonly used options which we will learn about as the tutorials progress. 26 00:02:47 --> 00:02:52 Now let us start the tutorial by learning how to open a new document in Writer. 27 00:02:53 --> 00:02:59 You can open a new document by clicking on the New icon in the standard toolbar 28 00:03:00 --> 00:03:04 or by clicking on the File option in the menu bar 29 00:03:05 --> 00:03:11 and then clicking on the New option and then finally clicking on the “Text document” option. 30 00:03:12 --> 00:03:16 You see that a new Writer window opens up in both the cases. 31 00:03:17 --> 00:03:20 Now type some text in the editor area. 32 00:03:21 --> 00:03:23 So we will type, RESUME. 33 00:03:24 --> 00:03:28 Once done writing your document, you should save it for future use. 34 00:03:29 --> 00:03:32 To save this file, click on File in the menu bar 35 00:03:33 --> 00:03:35 and then click on the Save As option. 36 00:03:36 --> 00:03:43 A new dialog box appears on the screen where you are required to enter the name of your file under the “Name” field. 37 00:03:44 --> 00:03:47 So enter the name of the file as resume. 38 00:03:48 --> 00:03:57 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. 39 00:03:58 --> 00:04:01 So click on the down arrow in the “Save in folder” field 40 00:04:02 --> 00:04:07 You see a list of folders appears in the menu where you can save your file. 41 00:04:08 --> 00:04:13 Now let us click on the “Desktop”option. The file will be saved on the desktop. 42 00:04:14 --> 00:04:17 You can also click on Browse for other folders 43 00:04:18 --> 00:04:22 and choose the folder in which you want to save your document. 44 00:04:23 --> 00:04:26 Now click on the File type option in the dialog box. 45 00:04:27 --> 00:04:33 It shows you a list of file type options or file extensions under which you can save your file. 46 00:04:34 --> 00:04:44 The default file type in LibreOffice Writer is the “ODF Text Document” which provides the extension “dot odt”. 47 00:04:45 --> 00:04:55 ODT belongs to the Open Document Format or the ODF format which is a globally accepted open standard for word documents. 48 00:04:56 --> 00:05:03 It is also accepted by the Government of India policy on 'open standards in e-Governance' 49 00:05:04 --> 00:05:10 Besides saving as dot odt text documents, which can be opened in LibreOffice Writer, 50 00:05:11 --> 00:05:22 you can also save your file as dot doc and as dot docx format which can be opened in the MS Office Word program. 51 00:05:23 --> 00:05:32 Another popular file extension which opens in most programs is dot rtf, which is the “Rich Text Format”. 52 00:05:33 --> 00:05:36 Now click on the “ODF Text Document” option. 53 00:05:37 --> 00:05:47 You see that the file type, “ODF Text Document” and within brackets dot “odt”, gets displayed next to the “File type” option. 54 00:05:48 --> 00:05:49 Now click on the “Save” button. 55 00:05:50 --> 00:05:57 This takes you back to the Writer window with the filename and extension of your choice on the title bar. 56 00:05:58 --> 00:06:02 You are now ready to write a text document in Writer window. 57 00:06:03 --> 00:06:12 In addition to the formats discussed above ,the Writer documents can also be saved in dot html format which is a web page format. 58 00:06:13 --> 00:06:16 This is done in the same way as explained before . 59 00:06:17 --> 00:06:23 So click on the File option in the menubar and then click on the Save As option. 60 00:06:24 --> 00:06:34 Now click on the ”File Type” option, and then click on the HTML Document and within braces Open Office dot org Writer option. 61 00:06:35 --> 00:06:39 This option gives the dot html extension to the document. 62 00:06:40 --> 00:06:41 Click on the Save button. 63 00:06:42 --> 00:06:49 Now put a check on the Ask when not saving in ODF format option in the dialog box. 64 00:06:50 --> 00:06:54 Finally click on the “Keep Current Format” option. 65 00:06:55 --> 00:06:59 You see that the document gets saved with dot html extension. 66 00:07:00 --> 00:07:09 The document can also be exported to PDF format by simply clicking on the “Export Directly as PDF”option in the standard tool bar. 67 00:07:10 --> 00:07:14 As before, choose the location where you wish to save. 68 00:07:15 --> 00:07:23 Alternately, you can do so by clicking on the “File” option in the menu bar and then clicking on the “Export as pdf” option. 69 00:07:24 --> 00:07:31 In the Dialog box which appears ,click on “Export”and after that click on the “Save” button. 70 00:07:32 --> 00:07:34 A pdf file will be created. 71 00:07:35 --> 00:07:39 Lets close this document by clicking on “File” and then “Close”. 72 00:07:40 --> 00:07:46 Next we will learn how to open an existing document in LibreOffice Writer. 73 00:07:47 --> 00:07:50 Lets open the document Resume.odt. 74 00:07:51 --> 00:07:59 To open an existing document, click on the “File” menu in the menubar at the top and then click on the “Open” option. 75 00:08:00 --> 00:08:03 You see that a dialog box appears on the screen. 76 00:08:04 --> 00:08:07 Here find the folder where you saved your document. 77 00:08:08 --> 00:08:13 So click on the small pencil button at the top left corner of the dialog box. 78 00:08:14 --> 00:08:15 It has the name, “Type a file Name”. 79 00:08:16 --> 00:08:18 This opens a “Location Bar” field. 80 00:08:19 --> 00:08:23 Here, type the name of the file you are looking for. 81 00:08:24 --> 00:08:26 So we write the name of the file as “resume”. 82 00:08:27 --> 00:08:33 Now the list which appears with resume as file names, choose resume dot odt 83 00:08:34 --> 00:08:36 Now click on the Open button. 84 00:08:37 --> 00:08:40 You see that the file resume.odt opens. 85 00:08:41 --> 00:08:51 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. 86 00:08:52 --> 00:09:02 You can also open files in Writer with dot doc and dot docx extensions which are used by Microsoft Word. 87 00:09:03 --> 00:09:09 Next you will see how to modify a file and save it under the same file name. 88 00:09:10 --> 00:09:16 So first select the text RESUME by clicking on the left mouse button and then dragging it along the text. 89 00:09:17 --> 00:09:23 This will select the text and highlight it. Now release the left mouse button. 90 00:09:24 --> 00:09:25 The text should still be highlighted. 91 00:09:26 --> 00:09:32 Now click on the “Bold” icon in the standard toolbar. The text thus becomes bold. 92 00:09:33 --> 00:09:40 In order to align this text to the centre of the page,click on the “Centered” icon in the toolbar. 93 00:09:41 --> 00:09:44 You see that the text gets centrally aligned on the page. 94 00:09:45 --> 00:09:47 Now let us increase the font size of the text. 95 00:09:48 --> 00:09:52 So click on the down arrow in the “Font Size” field in the toolbar. 96 00:09:53 --> 00:09:56 In the drop down menu,let us click on “14”. 97 00:09:57 --> 00:10:00 So the font size of the text increases to “14”. 98 00:10:01 --> 00:10:08 Now click on the down arrow in the Font Name field and then select UnDotum as the font name. 99 00:10:09 --> 00:10:12 Click on the Save icon in the toolbar. 100 00:10:13 --> 00:10:20 So you see that the file gets saved under the same file name even after the modification is done. 101 00:10:21 --> 00:10:24 Once you have saved your document and you wish to close it, 102 00:10:25 --> 00:10:32 just click on the File menu in the menu bar and click on the Close option.This closes your file. 103 00:10:33 --> 00:10:38 This brings us to the end of the spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer 104 00:10:39 --> 00:10:40 To summarize, we learned about: 105 00:10:41 --> 00:10:42 Introduction to Writer. 106 00:10:43 --> 00:10:44 Various toolbars in Writer. 107 00:10:45 --> 00:10:51 How to open a new document and an existing document on Writer.How to save a document on Writer. 108 00:10:52 --> 00:10:54 How to close a document on Writer. 109 00:10:55 --> 00:10:57 COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT 110 00:10:58 --> 00:11:00 Open a new document in Writer. 111 00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 Save it under the name “practice.odt” 112 00:11:05 --> 00:11:10 Write the text “This is my first assignment” 113 00:11:11 --> 00:11:11 Save the file. 114 00:11:12 --> 00:11:12 Underline the text. 115 00:11:13 --> 00:11:15 Increase the font size to 16. 116 00:11:16 --> 00:11:17 Close the file. 117 00:11:18 --> 00:11:23 Watch the video available at the following link. 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