Advanced text processing – LibreOffice Writer, handbook
CONTENT
Introduction
1. FORMATTING
1.1 TEXT
Apply text wrapping options on graphical objects (picture, image, chart, diagram, drawing), tables.
Using option, Find and Replace such as: font formats, paragraph formats, paragraph marks, page breaks
Using paste special options, formatted text, unformatted text
1.2 PARAGRAPHS
Apply line spacing within paragraphs: at least, exactly or fixed, multiple or proportional
Using paragraph breaks
Apply, modify hierarchically numerated lists
1.3 STYLES
Create, modify, and update a character style
Create, modify, and update a paragraph style
1.4 COLUMNS
Create multiple column layouts. Change number of columns in a column layout
Change column width and spacing. Insert, remove lines between columns
Insert, delete a column break
1.5 TABLES
Apply a table autoformat or table style
Change cell margins, alignment, text direction in a cell
Automatically repeat a heading row at the top of each page
Allow, do not allow row break at the page bottom
Sort data by one column or by multiple columns simultaneously
Convert delimited text to a table
Convert a table to text
2. REFERENCING
2.1 CAPTIONS, FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES
Add a caption above, below a graphical object, table.
Add, delete a caption label.
Change caption number format.
Insert, modify footnotes, endnotes.
Convert a footnote to an endnote. Convert an endnote to a footnote.
2.2 TABLES AND INDEXES
Create, update a table of contents based on specified heading styles and formats.
Create, update a table of figures based on specific styles and formats.
Mark an index as main entry or subentry. Delete a marked index entry.
Create, update an index based on marked index entries.
2.3 BOOKMARKS AND CROSS-REFERENCES.
Add or delete a bookmark.
Create, delete cross-references for numbered items, headings, bookmarks, figures and tables.
Add cross-references to an index entry.
3. ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY
3.1 USING FIELDS
Insert, or delete fields like author, file name, path, file size, fill in or input.
Insert a sum formula field in a table
Change field number format
Lock, unlock, update a field.
3.2 FORMS, TEMPLATES
Create, modify a form using available form field options like text field, check box and drop-down menu.
Add help text to a form field.
Protect, unprotect a form
Modify a template
3.3 MAIL MERGE
Edit, sort a mail merge recipient list.
Insert Ask field: if…then…else…
Merge a document with a recipient list using the appropriate merging criteria.
3.4 LINKING, EMBEDDING
Insert, edit, remove a hyperlink.
Link data to a document, application and display as an object, icon
Update, break link
Embed data into a document as an object
Edit, delete embedded data
3.5 AUTOMATION
Apply automatic text formatting options
Create, modify, delete automatic text correction entries.
Create, modify, delete automatic text correction entries.
Record a macro such as: change page setup, insert a table with a repeating heading row, insert fields in document header or footer.
Run a macro
Assign a macro to buttons on the toolbar.
- COLLABORATIVE EDITING
4.1 TRACKING AND REVIEWING
Turn on, turn off track changes. Track changes in a document using a specified display view.
Accept, reject changes in a document.
Insert, edit, delete, show, hide comments/notes
Compare and merge documents
4.2 MASTER DOCUMENTS
Create a new master document by creating a subdocument from headings.
Insert, remove a subdocument in a master document.
Use text outline/navigator options: promote, demote, expand, collapse, move up, move down.
4.3 SECURITY
Add, remove password document protection: open, modify
Protect a document to allow only tracked changes and comments
5. PREPARE OUTPUT
5.1 SECTIONS
Create, modify, delete section break in a document.
Change page orientation, vertical alignment on a page, margins for document sections.
5.2 DOCUMENT SETTINGS
Apply different headers and footers to sections, first page, odd and even pages in a document.
Add, modify, remove a watermark in a document
6. GENERAL TERMS OF USE
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