OpenOffice Word Processor

Introduction

• Who has used a word processor before? Who has used OpenOffice before?
• What do you plan to do with OpenOffice Word Processor?

Objectives

• Students will be able to:
  • Manage Files
  • Edit Files
  • Change the Way They View Files
  • Insert Into Documents
  • Format Files and Text
  • Use Tools
  • Open New Windows
  • Get Help
  • Use Shortcuts

Class Outline

1. Manage Files
   • Create a Document
   • Save a Document
   • Find your document
   • Create a Folder on Your Desktop
   • Save to the Folder
   • Password-Protect Files
   • Save as Microsoft Word Document
2. Edit Files
   • Undo, Redo, Repeat
   • Cut, Copy, Paste
   • Find and Replace
   • Show Changes
3. Change the Way you View Your Document
   • Customize the Toolbar (Drawing, etc.)
   • Zoom
4. Insert Into Documents
   • Breaks
   • Date, Time, Etc.
   • Special Characters
   • Headers, Footers, Footnotes
   • Frames, Notes, Tables
   • Pictures
   • Tables
5. Format Files and Text
   • Change Font Style, Color, Size, Etc.
   • Indent, Double Space
   • Center, Right, Left Align Text
   • Create Borders
6. Use Tools
   • Spellcheck
   • Thesaurus
   • Word Count
   • AutoCorrect
   • Footnotes, Endnotes
   • Outline and Line Numbering
7. Open New Windows
   • View Open Windows
   • Close Windows
8. Get Help
   • OpenOffice.org.Help
9. Use Shortcuts
   • Underscore: Ctrl + u
   • Bold: Ctrl + b
   • Italics: Ctrl + I
   • New Document: Ctrl + n
   • Select All: Ctrl + a
   • Copy: Ctrl + c
   • Cut: Ctrl + x
   • Paste: Ctrl + v
   • Save: Ctrl + s
   • Print: Ctrl + p
   • Exit: Ctrl + q
   • Find and Replace: Ctrl + f
   • Center: Ctrl + e

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