Creating and Formatting an OpenOffice.org Writer Document

The OpenOffice.org Writer application enables you to create professional-looking letters, reports, memos, books, and other types of text-based documents that are commonly used in business and academia. In OpenOffice.org Writer, you enter and format lines and paragraphs of text, usually with the eventual goal of outputting them to a printer in an easy-to-read format.

Launching OpenOffice.org Writer

Click the OpenOffice.org Writer icon to launch the application. Click the taskbar icon; the splash logo appears as the application loads. When the program is loaded, a new Writer application window containing an untitled document appears, as shown in Figure 8.2.

Figure 8.2. A new OpenOffice.org ...

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