OpenOffice Word Processor

Introduction

• What openoffice can do
• questions from the students
• a little history?

File management

• opening and closing
• file types, what they are and when and how to use them
• saving in special places, on floppies, etc
• password protection?
• finding your file again

Basic formatting

• bold, italics and all the usual stuff
• margins and tabs
• styles??

Spellcheck

• Starting and stopping automatic spellcheck
• limitations of spellcheck
• Changing dictionaries?

Tables

• Creating
• Adding/deleting rows and columns

page layout options

• headers, footers
• page numbers

Web page creation

• if we have time, a quick intro to saving your document as a web page.

Some fancy stuff

• Table of contents