Students taking the Sun OpenOffice.org Writer Specialist classroom course will gain the basic skills to create a wide range of standardized business documents. Using a variety of interactive demos and practice activities, the student learns how to work with documents and text, how to use formatting and styles, how to create and use templates, and how to insert tables and objects. The course also covers moderately advanced topics like using master documents, fields, and outlining to efficiently master your text processing needs. The course addresses the OpenOffice.org Specialist skill set. The OpenOffice.org Specialist course is for individuals who use the OpenOffice.org productivity software. Certification candidates must pass one of the Sun OpenOffice.org Certification exams in order to earn their Specialist Certification.
Who Can Benefit
OpenOffice Writer New Users
Prerequisites
This course is intended for students new to Writer with the following prerequisite skills:
- Basic computer literacy
- Open, save, close and delete documents
- Understanding of document types
- Navigate file structures
- Understanding of word processing concepts such as formatting, layouts and margins, hard returns, linking, copying and pasting, tables, bullets, numbering
Skills Gained
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the benefits of OpenOffice.org
- Use OpenOffice.org Help
- Use the Writer menus and toolbars
- Create, open and save documents
- Open and save documents with different formats
- Create, format and edit text and paragraphs
- Leverage the automatic features of Writer
- Create tables and graphics in Writer
- Use paragraph and character styles
- Leverage best practices for creating and editing Documents
- Modify the layout of a page
Related Courses
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Course Content
Module 1 - Introduction to OpenOffice.org
- What is OpenOffice.org
- Starting OpenOffice.org
- Parts of the Main Window
- Defining General Settings for OpenOffice.org
Module 2 - Creating, Opening, Saving, and Viewing Documents
- What are Templates
- Starting a New Document
- Opening an Existing Document
- Saving an Existing Document
- Document Converter Wizard
- Saving with a Password
- Closing a document and OpenOffice.org
Module 3 - Working with Text
- Checking Spelling
- AutoCorrect
- Using AutoText
- Inserting symbols or special characters
- Inserting Hyperlinks
- Selecting a Text in a document
- Cutting, copying and pasting text
- Removing Text
Module 4 - Formatting Text
- What is Formatting
- Using the Formatting Toolbar
- Using Colors for Text
- Using Formatting > Characters Option
Module 5 - Working and Formatting Paragraphs
- Crating and Merging paragraph(s)
- Formatting Paragraphs
- Alignment
- Text Flow
- Outline and Numbering
- Tabs
- Drop Caps
- Borders
- Background
- Bullets and Numbered lists
- Formatting Bullets and Numbering
- Using Sections
Module 6 - Applying Styles
- What is Style
- Applying styles
- Quickly Applying Styles
- Modifying and Creating styles
- Search and Replace Styles
Module 7 - Working with Tables
- Table Characteristics
- Creating a table
- Inserting data and moving within the table
- Selecting, inserting and deleting rows, columns, cells
- Merging and Splitting table cells
- Modifying table width and heights
- Table Borders and Background Color
- AutoFormatting Tables
- Formulas in table cells
- Inserting Calc spreadsheets in a document
Module 8 - Working with Pictures
- Adding images to a document
- Positioning graphics within the text
- Adding Captions
- Using the picture toolbar
- Copy and move an object within and between open documents
- Resize an image
- Inserting images from other sources
Module 9 - Working with Pages
- Working with Documents
- Changing the Document View
- Creating a Clone of Document
- Switching Between Documents
- Changing page orientation for a document
- Adding New pages to a document
- Deleting a page Break
- Arranging text into columns
- Changing Margins
- Navitor
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