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Training Overview: Open Office Writer Introduction

Duration: 1 Day

This course is for people who are new to Open Office Writer. It covers the basic functionality of the application such that delegates feel confident in creating simple documents, for example letters, memos and reports.

Course Content

Introduction

• Accessing Writer
• Creating a new document
• Typing text
• Saving a document
• Retrieving a document
• Moving around a document
• Print preview
• Printing a document

Working with Text

• Deleting and inserting text
• Using undo and redo
• Bold, underline and italics
• Fonts and text sizes
• Changing case
• Changing the colour of text
• Highlighting text
• Basic tab key use

Working with the Whole Document

• Spell check
• Thesaurus
• Page breaks
• Automatic page numbering
• Cut, copy and paste
• Changing page orientation

File Management

• Creating folders
• Moving and copying files
• Deleting files

Working with Paragraphs

• Left, right, centre and full justification
• Basic numbered paragraphs

Format

This course is instructor led in a classroom environment. We recommend a maximum of 8 delegates per course to ensure that all delegates gain the maximum benefit from the course.

Duration

This is a one day course. Standard hours are 9:30 to 16:30, with a one hour lunch break, and short breaks mid morning and mid afternoon. It may be possible to change this arrangement by request.