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INTRODUCING OPENOFFICE WRITER
‘Writer’ is a GUI based word processor that is similar to Microsoft Word. It is a part of OpenOffice suite.
It can be used on different platforms, including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux-BOSS, Solaris, etc.
It is a freeware software which means it is available free of cost. It is embedded with several distribution
of Linux. It has various features which enable a user to avail multiple facilities related to typing, editing,
formatting, etc. In Writer, a document can be saved in different file formats, including the Microsoft
Word’s doc, docx, rtf and xhtml.
To begin Writer, double click on its icon on the desktop. It opens as:
Close
Standard
Tool Bar Maximize/Restore
Minimize
Formatting
Tool Bar Vertical Scroll Bar
Menu Bar
Title Bar
Document Horizontal
Window/
Work Area Ruler
Vertical
Ruler
Drawing Previous Page
Tool Bar Zoom Next Page Buttons
Status Bar Horizontal Scroll Bar
The opened screen of ‘Writer’ has different parts. Some of them are:
l Document Window/Work Area: It refers to the active document where text is typed. It is the
workspace where the user can type text at the cursor point. The blinking vertical line (which looks
like ‘I’) in a document is known as the insertion point or cursor.
l Title Bar: It lies at the top of the screen. It displays the name of the active document. On the title
bar there is a control box at the left corner and Minimize, Maximize/Restore and Close buttons are
at the upper right corner.
l Minimize/Maximize/Restore/Close Buttons: They are located at the upper right corner of the
screen. They are used to minimize, maximize/restore and to close the active document respectively.
l Menu Bar: It lies below the ‘Title bar’. It contains a list of menus like File, Edit, View, Insert, Format,
Table, Tools, Window and Help. Each menu has its own sub-menu and options for executing
different functions.
l Standard Toolbar: It lies below the ‘Menu bar’. It contains shortcut buttons which provide quick
access to frequently used commands like New, Open, Save, Print, etc.
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