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  • Advanced Word Processing – Paragraphs

    Apply line spacing within paragraphs: at least, exactly/ fixed, multiple/proportional.

    Line spacing defines the distance or gap between individual lines in a paragraph. To apply line spacing within paragraphs, right-click once anywhere on the paragraph for which line spacing needs to be changed and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paragraph’.
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    This will open the ‘Paragraph’ dialog box. In this dialog box, under the ‘Indents & Spacing’ tab, we have a ‘Line Spacing’ drop-down list. We can select the appropriate type of line spacing which needs to be applied from this list. After selecting the appropriate value, click on ‘OK’. The settings will get applied to the document.

    Paragraph 6Apply, remove paragraph pagination options.

    Pagination is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages. To apply pagination to a document, right-click once on the location from where you need to start a new page and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paragraph’.

    This will open the ‘Paragraph’ dialog box. In this dialog box, under the ‘Text Flow’ tab, we have a ‘Breaks’ section. We can insert a page break using the different fields present in this section. After selecting the appropriate values, click on ‘OK’. The settings will get applied to the document.Paragraph Text Flow 7
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  • Advanced Word Processing – Paste Special

    Use paste special options: formatted text, unformatted text.

    To use the paste special option of Writer, first of all copy some text. To copy text, select the text which needs to be copied and then right-click on that selected text and from the resulting menu click on ‘Copy’.
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    After this, go to the location where you want to paste the copied data and then right-click once. From the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste Special’ and from the menu thus displayed, click on ‘More Options’. This opens the ‘Paste Special’ dialog box.

    Here we have the options to choose whether we need to paste the formatted text or the unformatted text. If we select formatted text, then the formatting of the text which was copied earlier will get copied along with the data. But if unformatted text is chosen, then only the text will get copied and all the formatting associated with that text will be ignored. Select the appropriate option and then click on ‘OK’. This is how paste special works.Paste Special 5

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  • Advanced Word Processing – Paste Special

    Use paste special options: formatted text, unformatted text.

    To use the paste special option of Writer, first of all copy some text. To copy text, select the text which needs to be copied and then right-click on that selected text and from the resulting menu click on ‘Copy’.
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    After this, go to the location where you want to paste the copied data and then right-click once. From the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste Special’ and from the menu thus displayed, click on ‘More Options’. This opens the ‘Paste Special’ dialog box.

    Here we have the options to choose whether we need to paste the formatted text or the unformatted text. If we select formatted text, then the formatting of the text which was copied earlier will get copied along with the data. But if unformatted text is chosen, then only the text will get copied and all the formatting associated with that text will be ignored. Select the appropriate option and then click on ‘OK’. This is how paste special works.Paste Special 5

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  • Advanced Word Processing – Find and Replace

    Use find and replace options like: font formats, paragraph formats, paragraph marks, page breaks.

    Find and replace options in Writer help us to find a particular block of data in the document and then replace this block with some other data which is defined using this method.

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    To use the find and replace options in LibreOffice Writer, click on ‘Edit’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Find & Replace’. This will open the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog box.

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    In this dialog box, click once inside the ‘Search For’ text field and then click on the ‘+’ sign in front of ‘Other options’ to open the additional options which this dialog provides. After this, click on ‘Attributes’ to open the ‘Attributes’ dialog box.

    Attributes 3In this dialog box, we have a list of all the different attributes of LibreOffice Writer. Select the appropriate attributes from this list and then click on ‘OK’. This will take the control back to the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog box.
    Now click on ‘Format’. This will open the ‘Text Format’ dialog box. In this dialog box, we have a number of tabs which provide different options for selecting different formatting options. Select the particular options from this dialog which need to be searched in the document and then click on ‘OK’. This will take the control back to the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog box. Now we have selected the properties for the data which is going to be searched in the document.

    Text Format Search 4Now we need to set the data with which the above searched data is going to get replaced. Click once inside the ‘Replace With’ text field and then click on ‘Format’ to select the different formatting options in the same way as we did above. After selecting everything, click on ‘Replace’ or ‘Replace All’ from the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog to replace the values one by one or all at once.

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  • Advanced Word Processing – Find and Replace

    Use find and replace options like: font formats, paragraph formats, paragraph marks, page breaks.

    Find and replace options in Writer help us to find a particular block of data in the document and then replace this block with some other data which is defined using this method.

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    To use the find and replace options in LibreOffice Writer, click on ‘Edit’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Find & Replace’. This will open the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog box.

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    In this dialog box, click once inside the ‘Search For’ text field and then click on the ‘+’ sign in front of ‘Other options’ to open the additional options which this dialog provides. After this, click on ‘Attributes’ to open the ‘Attributes’ dialog box.

    Attributes 3In this dialog box, we have a list of all the different attributes of LibreOffice Writer. Select the appropriate attributes from this list and then click on ‘OK’. This will take the control back to the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog box.
    Now click on ‘Format’. This will open the ‘Text Format’ dialog box. In this dialog box, we have a number of tabs which provide different options for selecting different formatting options. Select the particular options from this dialog which need to be searched in the document and then click on ‘OK’. This will take the control back to the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog box. Now we have selected the properties for the data which is going to be searched in the document.

    Text Format Search 4Now we need to set the data with which the above searched data is going to get replaced. Click once inside the ‘Replace With’ text field and then click on ‘Format’ to select the different formatting options in the same way as we did above. After selecting everything, click on ‘Replace’ or ‘Replace All’ from the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog to replace the values one by one or all at once.

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  • Advanced Word Processing – Text Wrapping

    Apply text wrapping options for graphical objects (picture, image, chart, diagram, drawn object), tables.

    Text wrapping is the method by which the text is arranged around an image or some other object in a document. There are different types of text wrapping by which we can arrange text around objects in many different ways.
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    To apply the different types of text wrapping options to a graphical object like a picture or a chart, simply click once on the graphical object so that it becomes surrounded by eight green colored square boxes on the edges. After this, right-click on the object, and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Wrap’. This will display a sub-menu which gives a list of all the wrapping options available in LibreOffice Writer. Click on the appropriate wrapping option from this menu and that wrapping will get applied to the selected object.

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  • Understanding Presentations Quiz

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  • Understanding Presentations – Slide Show

    Start a slide show from first slide, from current slide.

    We can start the slide show from the first slide by selecting the ‘Slide Show’ option from the main menu bar and from the drop down that appears selecting the option ‘Start from first slide’. This will start the presentation from the first slide.
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    We can also start the presentation from any other slide by selecting the ‘Slide Show’ option from the main menu bar and then selecting the option ‘Start from current slide’. This will start the presentation form the currently selected slide.Start Slide 13

    Navigate to next slide, previous slide or specified slide during a slide show.

    Navigation to the next slide depends upon what we have selected in the ‘Slide Transition’ option. If we have selected ‘Automatically’, then after x seconds we will automatically move to the next slide. If we have selected ‘On Mouse Click’, then we can use the down arrow key, right arrow key, page down key, left mouse button or spacebar to move to the next slide. To go to the previous slide, we can use the up arrow key, left arrow key or page up key.

    If we need to move to a specified slide during the slide show then right click anywhere on the screen. A list appears which has option ‘Go to slide’. After clicking on this option, a list appears which has the names of all the slides. We can select the slide to which we need to move from this list.
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  • Understanding Presentations – Slide Show

    Start a slide show from first slide, from current slide.

    We can start the slide show from the first slide by selecting the ‘Slide Show’ option from the main menu bar and from the drop down that appears selecting the option ‘Start from first slide’. This will start the presentation from the first slide.
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    We can also start the presentation from any other slide by selecting the ‘Slide Show’ option from the main menu bar and then selecting the option ‘Start from current slide’. This will start the presentation form the currently selected slide.Start Slide 13

    Navigate to next slide, previous slide or specified slide during a slide show.

    Navigation to the next slide depends upon what we have selected in the ‘Slide Transition’ option. If we have selected ‘Automatically’, then after x seconds we will automatically move to the next slide. If we have selected ‘On Mouse Click’, then we can use the down arrow key, right arrow key, page down key, left mouse button or spacebar to move to the next slide. To go to the previous slide, we can use the up arrow key, left arrow key or page up key.

    If we need to move to a specified slide during the slide show then right click anywhere on the screen. A list appears which has option ‘Go to slide’. After clicking on this option, a list appears which has the names of all the slides. We can select the slide to which we need to move from this list.
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  • Understanding Presentations – Print

    Change slide setup, slide orientation to portrait, landscape. Change paper size.

    We can change the slide orientation to portrait or landscape by using the ‘Print’ dialog box. Firstly select ‘Print’ option form the ‘File’ option on the main menu bar. This will open the ‘Print’ dialog box. Now, in this dialog box, under the ‘General’ tab, click on the ‘Properties’ button.
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    Print 9This will open a new dialog. In this dialog, under the ‘Layout’ tab, we have the ‘Orientation’ option from where we can select the slide orientation as portrait or landscape. After selecting the required orientation, click on ‘OK’.Properties 10

    Print entire presentation, specific slides, handouts, notes pages, outline view of slides, number of copies of a presentation.

    As has been explained in the previous section, to print a slide or any portion of the slide, first of all we need to go to the ‘Print’ dialog box. Now first of all, select if you want to print the ‘Slides’, ‘Handouts’, ‘Notes’ or ‘Outline’ from the ‘Document’ drop-down list under the ‘Print’ area under the ‘General’ tab of the ‘Print’ dialog box.Select Print 11

    Now, if you want to print all the slides, select ‘All Slides’ option under ‘Range and Copies’ and if you want to print only some selected slides then select ‘Slides’ option under ‘Range and Copies’ and mention the slide numbers separated by comma.

    Range & CopiesLastly, to specify the number of copies you need to print, enter the number in the ‘Number of Copies’ option.
    Now, after making all the necessary changes, click on ‘OK’.
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