What is Writer?
Writer is the word processor component of OpenOffice.org (OOo). In
addition to the usual features of a word processor (spell checking,
thesaurus, hyphenation, autocorrect, find and replace, automatic
generation of tables of contents and indexes, mail merge and others),
Writer provides these important features:
• Templates and styles (see Chapter 3)
• Powerful page layout methods, including frames, columns, and
tables
• Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other
objects
• Built-in drawing tools
• Master documents—to group a collection of documents into a
single document
• Change tracking during revisions
• Database integration, including a bibliography database
• Export to PDF, including bookmarks (see Chapter 10)
• And many more
These features are covered in detail in the
Writer Guide
.
The Writer interface
The main Writer workspace is shown in Figure 53. The menus and
toolbars are described in Chapter 1 (Introducing OpenOffice.org).
Some other features of the Writer interface are covered in this chapter.
Figure 53: The main Writer workspace in Print
Layout view
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