Libreoffice Writer Notes
File Menu
New :-Creates a new LibreOffice document.
Open:- Opens a local or remote file, or imports one.
Open Remote:- Opens a document located in a remote file service.
Recent Documents:- Lists the most recently opened files. To open a file in the list, click its name.
Close :- Closes the current document without exiting the program.
Wizards:- Guides you through creating business and personal letters, faxes, agendas, presentations, and more.
Templates:- Lets you organize and edit your templates, as well as save the current file as a template.
Reload:- Replaces the current document with the last saved version.
Versions:- Saves and organizes multiple versions of the current document in the same file. You can also open, delete and compare previous versions.
Save:- Saves the current document.
Save Remote:- Saves a document located in a remote file service.
Save As :- Saves the current document in a different location, or with a different file name or file type.
Save All:- Saves all modified LibreOffice documents.
Save a Copy:- Saves a copy of the actual document with another name or location.
Export:-Saves the current document with a different name and format to a location that you specify.
Export As:- Export the document in PDF or EPUB formats.
Send:-Sends a copy of the current document to different applications.
Preview in Web Browser:-Creates a temporary copy of the current document in HTML format, opens the system default Web browser, and displays the HTML file in the Web browser.
Print Preview:- Displays a preview of the printed page or closes the preview.
Print:- Prints the current document, selection, or the pages that you specify. You can also set the print options for the current document. The printing options can vary according to the printer and the operating system that you use.
Printer Settings:- Select the default printer for the current document.
Document Properties:- Displays the properties for the current file, including statistics such as word count and the date the file was created.
Digital Signatures:-Adds and removes digital signatures to and from your document. You can also use the dialog to view certificates.
Exit:- Closes all LibreOffice programs and prompts you to save your changes. This command does not exist on macOS systems.
Edit Menu
This menu contains commands for editing the contents of the current document.
Undo:- Reverses the last command or the last entry you typed. To select the command that you want to reverse, click the arrow next to the Undo icon on the Standard bar.
Redo:- Reverses the action of the last Undo command. To select the Undo step that you want to reverse, click the arrow next to the Redo icon on the Standard bar.
Repeat:- Repeats the last command. This command is available in Writer and Calc.
Cut:- Removes and copies the selection to the clipboard.
Copy:-Copies the selection to the clipboard.
Paste:- Inserts the contents of the clipboard at the location of the cursor, and replaces any selected text or objects.
Paste Special:- Inserts the contents of the clipboard into the current file in a format that you can specify.
Select All:- Selects the entire content of the current file, frame, or text object.
Selection Mode:- Choose the selection mode from the sub menu normal selection mode, or block selection mode.
Select Text:- You can enable a selection cursor in a read-only text document or in the Help. Choose Edit - Select Text or open the context menu of a read-only document and choose Select Text. The selection cursor does not blink.
Direct Cursor Mode:- Allows a user to click at the beginning, middle, or end of any possible text line on a page and then begin typing.
Find:- Toggle the visibility of the Find toolbar to search for text or navigate a document by element.
Find & Replace:- Finds or replaces text or formats in the current document.
Go to Page:- Opens the Navigator window on the Page Number spin button, so you can enter in a page number.
View Menu
This menu contains commands for controlling the on- screen display of the document.
Displays how the document will look when you print it.
Displays the document as it would be viewed in a Web browser. This is useful when you create HTML documents.
Opens a sub menu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quickly access LibreOffice commands.
Shows or hides the Status bar at the bottom edge of the window.
Contains a submenu for showing or hiding the horizontal and vertical rulers.
Show or hide the horizontal and vertical scroll bars that are used to change the viewable area of a document that doesn't fit within the window.
Shows or hides the boundaries of the printable area of a page. The boundary lines are not printed.
Shows or hides the borders of table cells that have no set borders. The boundaries are only visible on screen and are not printed.
Show or hide graphical objects like images and charts within a document.
Show or hide a document's comments and replies to them.
Shows hidden formatting symbols in your text, such as paragraph marks, line breaks, tab stops, and spaces.
Toggle the visibility of grid points and guide lines to help object moving and precise position in the current sheet.
View documents with the white space found at the end and beginning of pages hidden.
Shows or hides recorded changes.
Shows or hides shadings around fields in your document like non-breaking spaces, soft hyphens, indexes, and footnotes.
Switches between showing fields as field names or field values. When enabled the field names are displayed, and when disabled the field values displayed. Some field contents cannot be displayed.
The Sidebar is a vertical graphical user interface that primarily provides contextual properties, style management, document navigation, and media gallery features.
Use the Styles deck of the Sidebar to apply, create, edit, and remove formatting styles. Double-click an entry to apply the style.
Opens the Gallery deck of the Sidebar, where you can select images and audio clips to insert into your document.
Shows or hides the Navigator window, where you can quickly jump to different parts of your document. Navigator is also available as a deck of the Sidebar. You can also use the Navigator to insert elements from the current document or other open documents, and to organize master documents. To edit an item in the Navigator, right-click the item, and then choose a command from the context menu. If you want, you can dock the Navigator at the edge of your workspace.
Lists the databases that are registered in LibreOffice and lets you manage the contents of the databases.
Shows or hides the menus and toolbars in Writer or Calc. To exit the full screen mode, click the Full Screen button or press the Esc key.
Reduces or enlarges the screen display of LibreOffice.
Insert Menu
The Insert menu contains commands for inserting new elements in your document. This includes images, media, charts, objects from other applications, hyperlink, comments, symbols, footnotes, and sections.
Page Break
Inserts a manual page break at the current cursor position and places the cursor at the beginning of the next page.
Manual Break
Inserts a manual line break, column break or a page break at the current cursor position.
Image
Inserts an image into the current document with optimal page wrapping and centered on the line.
Media
The submenu presents various sources that an image, audio or video can be insert from.
Chart
Inserts a chart based on data from a cell or table range or with default data.
Inserts an embedded object into your document, including formulas, 3D models, charts and OLE objects.
Shape
This submenu contains common shapes like a line, circle, triangle, and square, or a symbol shape like a smiley face, heart, and flower that can be inserted into the document.
Fontwork
Opens the Font work dialog from which you can insert styled text not possible through standard font formatting into your document.
Textbox
Draws a text box with horizontal text direction where you drag in the current document. Drag a text box to the size you want anywhere in the document, and then type or paste your text. Rotate the text box to get rotated text.
Comment
Inserts a comment around the selected text or at the current cursor position.
Frame
This submenu contains both interactive and non-interactive means of inserting a frame.
Caption
Adds a numbered caption to a selected image, table, chart, frame, or shape. You can also access this command by right-clicking the item that you want to add the caption to.
Hyperlink
Opens a dialog that enables you to create and edit hyperlinks.
Bookmark
Inserts a bookmark at the cursor position. You can then use the Navigator to quickly jump to the marked location at a later time. In an HTML document, bookmarks are converted to anchors that you can jump to from a hyperlink.
This is where you insert the references or referenced fields into the current document. References are referenced fields within the same document or within sub-documents of a master document.
Allows a user to insert characters from the range of symbols found in the installed fonts.
Formatting Mark
Opens a submenu to insert special formatting marks like non-breaking space, soft hyphen, and optional break.
Horizontal Line
Inserts a horizontal line at the current cursor position.
Footnote and Endnote
The menu contains commands to insert a footnote or endnote with or without additional user interaction.
Table of Contents and Index
Opens a menu to insert an index or bibliography entry, as well as inserting a table of contents, index, and or bibliography.
Page Number
Inserts the current page number as a field at the cursor position. The default setting is for it to use the Page Number character style.
The submenu lists the most common field types that can be inserted into a document at the current cursor position. To view all of the available fields, choose More Fields.
Header and Footer
This submenu includes commands to add and remove page headers and footers.
Section
Inserts a text section at the cursor position in the document. You can also select a block of text and then choose this command to create a section. You can use sections to insert blocks of text from other documents, to apply custom column layouts, or to protect or to hide blocks of text if a condition is met.
Creates an envelope. On three tab pages, you can specify the addressee and sender, the position and format for both addresses, the size of the envelope, and the envelope orientation.
Document
Inserts the contents of another document into the current document at the cursor position.
Script
Inserts a script at the current cursor position in an HTML or text document.
This submenu contains form controls like a textbox, checkbox, option button, and listbox that can be inserted into the document.
Format Menu
Contains commands for formatting the layout and the contents of your document.
Text
Opens a sub menu where you can choose text formatting commands.
Spacing
Change line spacing, Indent and paragraph spacing.
Align
Align text(Left, Right, Center).
List
show/hide all Bullets and Number in current document.
Clone Formatting
You can quickly copy or clone a set of formatting commands that has been applied to a text.
Clear Direct Formatting
Removes direct formatting and formatting by character styles from the selection.
Character
Changes the font and the font formatting for the selected characters.
Paragraph
Modifies the format of the current paragraph, such as indents and alignment.
Bullets and Numbering
Adds numbering or bullets to the current paragraph, and lets you edit format of the numbering or bullets.
Page Style
Specify the formatting styles and the layout for the current page style, including page margins, headers and footers, and the page background.
Watermark
Watermarking is a way of inserting any graphic or text in all the pages of a Writer document to make sure that the document is not copied.
Sections
Changes the properties of sections defined in your document. To insert a section, select text or click in your document, and then choose Insert – Section.
Image
Formats the size, position, and other properties of the selected image.
Frame
Inserts a frame that you can use to create a layout of one or more columns of text and objects.
Object
Opens a submenu to edit the properties of the selected object.
Anchor
Sets the anchoring options for the selected object.
Wrap
Specify the way you want text to wrap around an object. You can also specify the spacing between the text and the object.
Alignment (Objects)
Aligns selected objects with respect to one another.
Alignment (Text Objects)
Set the alignment options for the current selection.
Arrange
Changes the stacking order of the selected object(s).
Groups keep together selected objects, so that they can be moved or formatted as a single object.
Table Menu
Shows commands to insert, edit, and delete a table and its elements inside a text document.
Insert Table
Inserts a new table.
Insert
Inserts columns.
Inserts rows.
Delete
Deletes the current table.
Deletes the selected columns.
Deletes the selected rows.
Select
Table
Selects the current table.
Column
Selects the current column.
Row
Selects the current row.
Cell
Selects the current cell.
Combines the contents of the selected table cells into a single cell.
Split Cells
Splits the cell or group of cells horizontally or vertically into the number of cells that you enter.
Merge Table
Combines the contents of the selected table cells into a single cell.
Split Table
Splits the current table into two separate tables at the cursor position. You can also access this command by right-clicking in a table cell.
Table AutoFormat
Automatically applies formats to the current table, including fonts, shading, and borders.
Autofit
Column width
Opens the Column Width dialog where you can change the width of a column.
Optimal Column Width
Automatically adjusts column widths to match the contents of the cells. Changing the width of a column does not affect the width of the other columns in the table. The width of the table cannot exceed the page width.
Distribute Columns Evenly
Adjusts the width of the selected columns to match the width of the widest column in the selection. The total width of the table cannot exceed the width of the page.
Row Height
Opens the Row Height dialog where you can change the height of a row.
Optimal Row Height
Automatically adjusts row heights to match the contents of the cells. This is the default setting for new tables.
Distribute Rows Evenly
Adjusts the height of the selected rows to match the height of the tallest row in the selection
Break Across Pages
Allows a page break within the current row.
Repeat Heading Rows
Repeats the table headers on subsequent pages if the table spans one or more pages
Convert
Text to Table
Opens a dialog where you can convert the selected text to a table.
Table to Text
Opens a dialog where you can convert the current table to text.
Sort
Sorts the selected paragraphs or table rows alphabetically or numerically. You can define up to three sort keys as well as combine alphanumeric and numeric sort keys.
Formula
Opens the Formula bar to enter or edit a formula.
Number Format
Opens a dialog where you can specify the format of numbers in the table.
Table Properties
Specifies the properties of the selected table, for example, name, alignment, spacing, column width, borders, and background.
From Menu
Contains commands for activate form design mode, open control wizards and insert form controls in your text document.
Design Mode
Enable or disable form design mode.
Control Wizards
Enable or disable control wizards.
Label Field
Adds a field for displaying text labels. These labels are only for displaying predefined text, and not for entering text.
Text Box
Adds an input box where you can enter and edit text.
Check Box
Adds a check box that you can use to turn a function on or off.
Option Button
Adds a button that allows a user to select from a number of options. Grouped option buttons must have consecutive tab indices. They are commonly encircled by a group box. If you have two groups of option
buttons, you must insert a tab index between the tab indices of the two groups on the group frame.
Combo Box
Adds a combo box. A combo box is a one line list box that a user can click, and then choose an entry from the list. If you want, you can make the entries in the combo box "read only".
Button
Adds a command button. You can use a command button to execute a command for a defined event, such as a mouse click. If you want, you can add text or a graphic to the button.
Image Button
Creates a button displayed as an image. Aside from the graphic representation, an image button has the same properties as a "normal" button.
Formatted Field
Adds a text box where you can define the formatting for text that is inputted or outputted as well as any limiting values.
More fields
Date, time, numerical, currency and pattern form fields.
Group Box
Adds a frame that you can use to visually group similar controls, such as option buttons.
Image Control
Creates an image control. It can only be used to add images from a database. In the form document, double-click one of these controls to open the Insert Graphic dialog to insert the image. There is also a context menu (not in design mode) with commands for inserting and deleting the image.
Images from a database can be displayed in a form, and new images can be inserted in the database as long as the image control is not write- protected. The control must refer to a database field of the image type. Therefore, enter the data field into the properties window on the Data tab page.
File Selection
Adds a button that opens a file selection dialog.
Table Control
Creates a table control to display a database table. If you create a new table control, the Table Element Wizard appears.
Navigation bar
Creates a Navigation bar. The Navigation bar allows you to move through the records of a database or a database form. The controls on this Navigation bar work the same way as the controls on the default Navigation bar in LibreOffice.
Control Properties
Opens a dialog for editing the properties of a selected control.
Form Properties
In this dialog you can specify, among others, the data source and the events for the whole form.
Form Navigator
Opens the Form Navigator. The Form Navigator displays all forms and sub forms of the current document with their respective controls.
Tab order
When a form is selected, it opens the Tab Order dialog, where the indices for focusing the control elements on the Tab key are defined.
Open in Design Mode
Opens forms in Design Mode so that the form can be edited.
Automatic Control Focus
Enable or disable Automatic Control Focus.
Tools Menu
Contains spelling tools, a room of object art that you can add to your document, as well as tools for configuring bill of fare, and setting program preferences.
Spelling
Checks spelling manually.
Language
Opens a sub menu where you can choose language specific commands.
Word Count
Counts the words and characters, with or without spaces, in the current selection and in the whole document. The count is kept up to date as you type or change the selection.
AutoCorrect Options
Sets the options for automatically replacing text as you type.
AutoText
Creates, edits, or inserts Auto Text. You can store formatted text, text with graphics, tables, and fields as Auto Text. To quickly insert Auto Text, type the shortcut for the Auto Text in your document, and then press Ctrl+F3.
Image Map
Create image map to selected area.
Chapter Numbering
Specifies the number format and the hierarchy for chapter numbering in the current document.
Line Numbering
Adds or removes and formats line numbers in the current document. To exclude a paragraph from line numbering, click in the paragraph, choose Format -
Paragraph, click the Numbering tab, and then clear the Include this paragraph in line numbering check box.
Footnotes and Endnotes
Specifies the display settings for footnotes and end notes.
Mail Merge Wizard
Starts the Mail Merge Wizard to create form letters or send e-mail messages to many recipients.
Address Book Source
It is used to enter the source of the created file.
Bibliography Database
Insert, delete, edit, and organize records in the bibliography database.
Sort
Sorts the selected paragraphs or table rows alphabetically or numerically. You can define up to three sort keys as well as combine alphanumeric and numeric sort keys.
Calculate
Calculates the selected formula and copies the result to the clipboard.
Update
Updates items in the current document that have dynamic contents, so as fields and indexes.
Macros
Lets you record or organize and edit macros.
Extension Manager
The Extension Manager adds, removes, disables, enables, and updates LibreOffice extensions.
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