SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One

Summary

In this chapter, you learned to use the basic features of the most commonly used OpenOffice.org application, OpenOffice.org Writer—a full-featured word processing application.

In OpenOffice.org Writer, you learned to do the following:

• Enter and edit text using your pointing device and the Writer text cursor

• Select blocks of text to move them around or copy them within a document

• Alter the appearance, size, or style of existing text or newly entered text

• Change the alignment of text paragraphs to left alignment, right alignment, center alignment, or full justification

• Change the margins, indentation, and spacing properties of paragraphs within your document

You also learned some housekeeping tasks, including how to save your work, load existing ...