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LibreOffice Writer
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Group 1 - Writer Basics


  • Video 1 - A first Look
    Download and run Libre Office, Look at the LibreOffice Writer Window, describe the Menubar, ToolBars, and Ruler. Enter 1 line of text




  • Video 5 - Saving
    How to Save your LibreOffice document, and save and open in as a MicroSoft Word document or as a PDF.





Group 2 - Writer Printing



  • Video 7 - Print Dialog Box
    A review of some print options from the print dialog box - like all front sides or all back sides or multiple pages per sheet.






Group 3 - Find, Find-Replace, Bookmarks, and Selection Techniques



  • Video 10 - Bookmarks
    How to create, use, rename, and delete bookmarks introduction to the navigation feature.






Group 4 - Customize Toolbars








Group 5 - Paragraph Formatting










Group 6 - Bullets and Numbering





  • Video 21 - Bullets and Numbering part 3
    Bullets and Numbering Tool Bar part 3- Arrows reviewed, and customizing your bullet as a wingding character, also consecutive numbering and restart numbering.





Group 7 - Special Characters and AutoCorrect








Group 8 - How to Report a LibreOffice bug








Group 9 - How to use character styles / bullets and number styles









Group 10 - Paragraph Styles








Group 11 - Table of Contents






















Group 14 - Indexes








Group 15 - Bibliography









Group 16 - Page Formatting - Part 1









Group 17 - Page Formatting - Part 2










Group 18 - Customize the Color







Group 19 - Tabs


  • Video 50 - Tabs - Part 1
    Tab basics - inserting and removing left, right, center, and decimal point tabs as paragraph formatting.

  • Video 51 - Tabs - Part 2
    Tab basics - inserting and removing left, right, center, and decimal point tabs as paragraph formatting.





Group 20 - Tables Part 1



  • Video 53 - Inserting a Table
    Inserting a table with and without borders, showing and hiding the table boundaries, selecting rows and columns adjusting a single cell border - spliting cells.





Group 21 - Tables Part 2 - Inserting Data and Table Toolbar



  • Video 55 - Table toolbar - Part 2
    Positioning a table left, right, center or anywhere inbetween, changing the size of the table, table shadows, table background (row and cell background fill).





Group 22 - Tables Part 3 - More Table Formatting








Group 23 - Tables Part 4 - Using a Table like a spreadsheet



  • Video 59 - AutoFormatting
    How to apply AutoFormatting on Table and How to create your own custom format (Custom AutoFormatting).






Group 24 - Templates Part 1








Group 25 - Templates Part 2


  • Video 63 - Adding an On-Line Template
    This Video shows the process of how I added A Simple Resume Template to the LibreOffice Template Website. (And why there are not many templates out there - It's a long and involved process).

  • Video 64 - .ott -- Organizing Templates
    We create template .ott file that we can e-mail and upload. We add a Date Field to a template. We show how to create a labels page as well as where we can get some table templates.





Group 26 - Picture Dialog Box


  • Video 65 - Picture/Graphics - Part 1
    Insert a graphic/picture into a LibreOffice Writer document, stretch and reduce the picture (with and without keeping the ratio) and moving your picture around your document.

  • Video 66 - Picture/Graphics - Part 2
    Naming the graphic, locking it to a position and/or locking the size, how to 'not print' a picture when printing out your document, and text wrapping around your graphic.









Group 27 - Picture Toolbars








Group 28 - Picture Context Menu / External Link









Group 29 - Gallery


  • Video 72 - Gallery-Part 1
    A Summery of what the Gallery is and how to insert a picture of a background from the Gallery into a document.






Group 30 - Frames









Group 31 - Math Formula









Group 32 - Fontwork Part 1








Group 33 - Fontwork Part 2


  • Video 82 - Fontwork-Part 3
    Fill your fontwork with color, hatching, Gradient, or a bitmap, creating a shadow, creating a gradient, adding a bitmap.






Group 34 - Collaboration - Comments







Group 35 - Collaboration - Record Changes








Group 36 - Mail Merge Parts 1+2








Group 37 - Mail Merge Parts 3+4


  • Video 89 - Mail Merge - Part 3
    Print out return address labels and donor list labels from the LibreOffice Calc database donor list created in video 87.






Group 38 - Mail Merge Wedding Planner