How to use Openoffice.org word processor

When handing a report or a document we can take advantage of a word processor that offers tidiness and save us time. A good option is Open Office Writer (Openoffice.org) that features a wide range of extremely useful tools. In addition to this, this suite also offers many alternatives to Microsoft Office package.

As we said before, we will now talk about one of the most commonly used Openoffice.org software: Open Office Writer, a word processor that will help you when working with documents. Use it, is extremely simple, reason why we will only mention its most common tools. After this, any user will be able to continue with the advance options.

When running Openoffice.org, a window will show us all the programs included in the package; select “word processor”, so that Open Office Writer opens. We will see a familiar interface, an A4 work sheet.

Open Office Writer offer many options and shortcuts toolbar. There are some predefined set up options like “Style”, the first button to the left of the bar, but we can also modify the text manually.

If we click on “Source”, located to the right of “Style”, we will see a great variety of option to choose from. “Source Size” will allow us to choose the size we want. In the middle of the same toolbar, we find B, I and U buttons, Bold, italic and underline.

Next, we find 4 buttons to align the text; identified for having horizontal lines that shows the aligned chosen type. We can align the text to the left, Center, right or justify it. In the same toolbar, Openoffice.org Writer offers us further possibilities to format our text, such as: bullets, indentation, font color, etc. We recommend you to try them, and see how they fit your needs.

To make Openoffice.org Writer even more interesting, it adds among other things, the possibility of inserting graphics, as a spreadsheet. To do so, go to Insert-> table-> spreadsheet. Once you added it, right click on it for easily access the set up options (data, format, edit, size, etc.).

Continue trying the possibilities Openoffice.org offers, in this software and other (Openoffice.org Basic, Calc, Draw, Impress and Math) we recommend you to install this complete package to discover new options that will help you to carry out a great job. Try it, is easy.

We introduce you to OpenOffice , an interesting choice when it comes to choosing a complete office software suite, thanks to their application similar to Microsoft Office such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

In most offices, enterprises, professional environments and even on home PCs we are used to see Microsoft Office, the most used and well-known software package. But, since it´s an expensive package we can try OpenOffice , the perfect alternative which is gaining ground by the day thanks to its benefits and constant updates. OpenOffice is a high quality set of tools and they have nothing to envy to Microsoft´s application suit.

For that reason, OpenOffice includes among its several features, a word processor (known as Writer) with ODF (OpenDocument Format) document support, a worksheet (Calc), a tool for slideshows creation (Impress), a database management application (Base). All of these programs are compatible with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access respectively. It also delivers several unique features such as a graphics editor (Draw), a Math Formula Editor (Math), and as if that wasn´t enough, it support slideshows sessions and creation of multimedia presentations.

All OpenOffice functions and tools are very intuitive and can be accessed easily. For instance, when launching OpenOffice a “Start center” will be displayed where each icon representing an application. Once inside each of them, we will find an interface similar to the one we are used to, therefore the main problem we will encounter is the language, which is English only. Other than that it´s quite a conventional software office suite.

Moreover, OpenOffice offers among its many features, the possibility to export documents to PDF (Portable Document Format) and SWF (Macromedia Flash) format, support for mobile devices such as AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word, Pocket Excel and compatibility for MySQL databases.

More, OpenOffice presents among its features with important options such as the possibilities to export documents to PDF format (Portable Document Format) and SWF (Macromedia Flash), as well as support for mobile devices such as AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word, Pocket Excel and compatibility for MySQL databases.

Without any doubt, the greatest problem in OpenOffice is the lack of fonts in spite of its great deal of applications and features; hence, we must manually add them in case we need more. Moreover, it´s worth mentioning the fact that OpenOffice is an Open-Source suite, therefore some minor issues may occur, such as stability issues and memory leaks.

OpenOffice is an application suite that can be used by anyone used to this type of software office suites. It´s just a matter of giving it a try and see if it´s worth leaving Microsoft Office aside, and install this free open-source application suite.

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