Page 22 - PlugGPT_V2.0_C4_Flipbook
P. 22
Editing Text in
3 LibreOffice Writer
Your Aim
to learn about:
Starting LibreOffice Writer Entering the Text
Selecting the Text Copying/Moving and Pasting the Text
Deleting the Text Undo/Redo
Find and Replace Changing Case
Spell Check Thesaurus
LibreOffice Writer is a word processing software that is used to type text. In the
previous class, you have learnt how to open, save, print and close a document in
LibreOffice Writer. In this chapter, you will learn how to edit text. Making changes
in the existing text is called editing.
There are many features of LibreOffice Writer which allows us to do the editing
easily. Let's learn some features of LibreOffice Writer.
The Find and Replace feature is used to quickly find a word or sentence and
replace it with another word or sentence.
The Thesaurus feature give us facility to pick up better words with the help of
inbuilt dictionary of Writer.
The Change Case feature provides quick editing of entire paragraph or whole
document.
Spell check feature is used to check the spelling mistakes.
STARTING LIBREOFFICE WRITER
Click on the LibreOffice Writer icon from the Launcher to open any document.
By default Writer opens up with a blank document named Untitled 1.
We notice a small blinking line which is known as cursor or insertion point. It
helps us to locate the location where our text would appear when typed. We type
the text on the workspace (blank area) and the cursor automatically shifts towards
right side.
20 Premium Edition-IV

