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Steve Oualline and Grace OuallinePractical Free Alternatives to Commercial Softwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3075-6_2

2. Getting Started with LibreOffice Writer

Steve Oualline1  and Grace Oualline1
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San Diego, California, USA
 

LibreOffice Writer is the word processing component of LibreOffice. It does pretty much everything useful that Microsoft Word does. It’s been used to write everything from one-page letters to 800-page books. As a matter of fact, this book was originally written using LibreOffice.

You will your adventure with LibreOffice by creating a party invitation. During this process, you will learn about the following:
  • Getting started with LibreOffice

  • Selecting fonts

  • Setting font sizes

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