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Your Aim
to learn about:
Find and Replace Line Spacing and Paragraph Spacing
Page Margin Page Orientation
Watermark Header and Footer
Inserting Mathematical Equations Mail Merge
In the previous class, you have already learnt about LibreOffice Writer. As you know, formatting
refers to the appearance of a document. It is important to format a document to make it more
understandable and attractive.
In this chapter, you will learn more features of LibreOffice Writer formatting.
FIND AND REPLACE
If you want to find whether a particular word or phrase appears in a document or not, you do not
need to read the entire document. LibreOffice Writer provides the Find feature to locate a word
or phrase in the document. To find a word or phrase, follow these steps:
Step 1 Open the Writer document in which you want to find a
word or phrase and click on the Edit menu.
Step 2 Select the Find option. This will open Navigation panel
at the bottom of the Writer window.
Step 3 Type the word or phrase in the text box.
Step 4 Click on the Search icon on the right side of the text
box or press the Enter key. The first occurrence of the
text in the document after the current position of the
cursor will be highlighted.
Step 5 Press the Enter key to move to the required occurrence
of the text.
Find option (Edit menu)
Writer also allows you to substitute all or only the selected
occurrences of a word with another word. This is called Find & Replace feature of Writer. To
substitute a word or phrase with another word or phrase, follow these steps:
Step 1 Click on the Edit menu.
Step 2 Select the Find and Replace option. The Find and Replace dialog box appears.
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