1 00:00:00 --> 00:00:06 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer- Creating Newsletters with Multiple Columns. 2 00:00:07 --> 00:00:16 In this tutorial we will learn how to create newsletters in LibreOffice Writer and a few operations that can be performed on them. 3 00:00:17 --> 00:00:26 Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4. 4 00:00:27 --> 00:00:38 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. 5 00:00:39 --> 00:00:46 It has multiple columns as sections and makes it easier for the reader to go through different articles in these sections. 6 00:00:47 --> 00:00:54 Using LibreOffice Writer one can create newsletters which make reading of articles much easier and faster. 7 00:00:55 --> 00:01:02 Lets open a new text document by clicking on File, New and Text Document option. 8 00:01:03 --> 00:01:12 Save this document with filename Newsletter. 9 00:01:13 --> 00:01:16 So we have a new text document named Newsletter. 10 00:01:17 --> 00:01:19 Now lets insert columns into our document. 11 00:01:20 --> 00:01:26 To do so, first click on the Format button in the menu bar and then click on Columns. 12 00:01:27 --> 00:01:30 A dialog box appears with various options - 13 00:01:31 --> 00:01:33 selecting the number of columns you want, 14 00:01:34 --> 00:01:36 setting the width and spacing of these columns 15 00:01:37 --> 00:01:41 as well as setting the various properties of the separator lines. 16 00:01:42 --> 00:01:48 We will select two columns for the newsletter document by increasing the column field value to 2. 17 00:01:49 --> 00:01:55 The five icons besides the column field show you the preview of the various formats available. 18 00:01:56 --> 00:01:58 So lets click on the second format. 19 00:01:59 --> 00:02:04 Lets keep all the other values which define the property of the columns as default. 20 00:02:05 --> 00:02:07 And click on the OK button. 21 00:02:08 --> 00:02:11 You see that 2 columns get displayed in the text area. 22 00:02:12 --> 00:02:14 Let us write an article in our first column. 23 00:02:15 --> 00:02:20 We will give its heading as Nature in bold text with font size 15. 24 00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 And below that we will write an article on it. 25 00:02:25 --> 00:02:32 You see that the cursor automatically goes to the next column after it reaches the end of the first column. 26 00:02:33 --> 00:02:38 You can even insert a picture in the column and resize it so that it fits into the column. 27 00:02:39 --> 00:02:45 Now after leaving out some spaces you can write another article into the column. 28 00:02:46 --> 00:02:55 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. 29 00:02:56 --> 00:03:01 So you see - columns make it easier for the reader to go through multiple articles. 30 00:03:02 --> 00:03:07 Let us delete some sentences so that our article fits in the first column only. 31 00:03:08 --> 00:03:15 Then, to access the further columns click on the Insert button and then click on Manual Break. 32 00:03:16 --> 00:03:22 In the dialog box which appears, click on the Column break button and then click on the OK button. 33 00:03:23 --> 00:03:26 You see that the cursor comes on the next column automatically. 34 00:03:27 --> 00:03:30 So you can start writing another article in this column. 35 00:03:31 --> 00:03:32 All the formatting options like 36 00:03:33 --> 00:03:37 Align left, Align right, adding Background Color to the text, 37 00:03:38 --> 00:03:40 Highlighting the text and many other features 38 00:03:41 --> 00:03:44 can be added to the text to make it attractive. 39 00:03:45 --> 00:03:50 For example, we select the portion of the text to which we want to apply a background color. 40 00:03:51 --> 00:03:58 Now click on the Background Color icon in the toolbar and then click on Green 4. 41 00:03:59 --> 00:04:04 We see that the background color of the selected text changes to light green. 42 00:04:05 --> 00:04:09 Like wise you can give different background colors to different parts of the text. 43 00:04:10 --> 00:04:17 You can even add banners to the newsletter by first clicking on the Text option in the drawing toolbar. 44 00:04:18 --> 00:04:23 Now place the textbox anywhere in the document where there is no written text. 45 00:04:24 --> 00:04:29 Inside the textbox you can write any text which will act as a banner or ads. 46 00:04:30 --> 00:04:34 So let us type some text like This is a newsletter. 47 00:04:35 --> 00:04:36 You can even add effects to this text. 48 00:04:37 --> 00:04:44 For example, first right click on the text and then click on the Text option in the menu. 49 00:04:45 --> 00:04:49 A dialog box appears which has tabs namely Text and Text Animation. 50 00:04:50 --> 00:04:52 Click on the Text Animation tab. 51 00:04:53 --> 00:04:57 In the Effects field under this tab there are various options. 52 00:04:58 --> 00:05:03 In order to blink the text in the newsletter, we click on the Blink option 53 00:05:04 --> 00:05:06 And finally click on the OK button. 54 00:05:07 --> 00:05:12 We see that the text This is a newsletter constantly blinks in the document. 55 00:05:13 --> 00:05:17 Similarly, various such effects and graphics can be given to the text. 56 00:05:18 --> 00:05:24 Now for writing a new article on the next page, you need to first click on the Insert button 57 00:05:25 --> 00:05:28 And then click on the Manual Break option. 58 00:05:29 --> 00:05:33 In the dialog box which appears, click on the Page break button. 59 00:05:34 --> 00:05:36 And finally click on the OK button. 60 00:05:37 --> 00:05:39 You see that the cursor comes on the next page. 61 00:05:40 --> 00:05:45 This page contains the same column format as on the previous page. 62 00:05:46 --> 00:05:52 For maintaining a word count in your article, first select a portion of your text or the entire document. 63 00:05:53 --> 00:05:56 Now click on the Tools option in the menu bar. 64 00:05:57 --> 00:06:01 Now click on the Word Count option in the dropdown box. 65 00:06:02 --> 00:06:09 A dialog box appears which shows you the word count of current selection and the whole document as well. 66 00:06:10 --> 00:06:17 It also shows the total count of characters in your entire document as well as in the selected text. 67 00:06:18 --> 00:06:22 The spell check can be done automatically while writing the document. 68 00:06:23 --> 00:06:27 Click on the AutoSpellcheck icon in the toolbar. 69 00:06:28 --> 00:06:36 Now while writing the article, if there are any spelling mistakes, then Writer automatically shows them by underlining the word with a red line. 70 00:06:37 --> 00:06:47 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. 71 00:06:48 --> 00:06:51 But when we correct the word, the red line disappears. 72 00:06:52 --> 00:07:00 Hence,we see that all the formatting options discussed in the previous tutorials can be applied in newsletters, too. 73 00:07:01 --> 00:07:05 This brings us to the end of this spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer. 74 00:07:06 --> 00:07:16 To summarise, we learned about how to Create Newsletters in LibreOffice Writer and few operations which can be performed on them. 75 00:07:17 --> 00:07:20 *Watch the video available at the following link 76 00:07:21 --> 00:07:23 *It 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