Getting Started with Apache OpenOffice Version 3.4 Chapter3 Getting Started with Writer Word Processing with Apache OpenOffice

Abstract

Writer is the word processor component of Apache OpenOffice. In addition to the usual features of a word processor (spelling check, thesaurus, hyphenation, autocorrect, find and replace, automatic generation of tables of contents and indexes, mail merge and others), Writer provides these important features: Templates and styles (see Chapter 2). Page layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables. Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects.