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What is LibreOffice? LibreOffice is a freely available, full-featured office productivity suite. Its native file format is OpenDocument, an open standard format that is being adopted by governments worldwide as a required file format for publishing and accepting documents. LibreOffice can also open and save documents in many other formats, including those used by several versions of Microsoft Office. LibreOffice includes the following components: Writer (word processor) Writer is a feature-rich tool for creating letters, books, reports, newsletters, brochures, and other documents. You can insert graphics and objects from other components into Writer documents. Writer can export files to HTML, XHTML, XML, Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF), and several versions of Microsoft Word files. It also connects to your email client. Calc (spreadsheet) Calc has all of the advanced analysis, charting, and decision-making features expected from a high-end spreadsheet. It includes over 300 functions for financial, statistical, and mathematical operations, among others. The Scenario Manager provides “what if” analysis. Calc generates 2-D and 3-D charts, which can be integrated into other LibreOffice documents. You can also open and work with Microsoft Excel workbooks and save them in Excel format. Calc can export spreadsheets to Adobe’s PDF and to HTML. Impress (presentations) Impress provides all the common multimedia presentation tools, such as special effects, animation, and drawing tools. It is integrated with the advanced graphics capabilities of LibreOffice’s Draw and Math components. Slide shows can be further enhanced with Fontwork’s special effects text, as well as sound and video clips. Impress is compatible with Microsoft’s PowerPoint file format and can also save your work in numerous graphics formats, including Macromedia Flash (SWF). Draw (vector graphics) Draw is a vector drawing tool that can produce everything from simple diagrams or flowcharts to 3- D artwork. Its Smart Connectors feature allows you to define your own connection points. You can use Draw to create drawings for use in any of LibreOffice’s other components, and you can create your own clip art and add it to the Gallery. Draw can import graphics from many common formats and save them in over 20 formats, including PNG, HTML, PDF, and Flash. Base (database) Base provides tools for day-to-day database work within a simple interface. It can create and edit forms, reports, queries, tables, views, and relations, so that managing a connected database is much the same as in other popular database applications. Base provides many new features, such as the ability to analyze and edit relationships from a diagram view. Base incorporates HSQLDB as its default relational database engine. It can also use dBASE, Microsoft Access, MySQL, or Oracle, or any ODBC-compliant or JDBC-compliant database. Base also provides support for a subset of ANSI-92 SQL. Math (formula editor) Math is LibreOffice’s formula or equation editor. You can use it to create complex equations that include symbols or characters not available in standard font sets. While it is most commonly used to create formulas in other documents, such as Writer and Impress files, Math can also work as a 10 Getting Started with LibreOffice 3.3
standalone tool. You can save formulas in the standard Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) format for inclusion in web pages and other documents not created by LibreOffice. The advantages of LibreOffice Here are some of the advantages of LibreOffice over other office suites: • No licensing fees. LibreOffice is free for anyone to use and distribute at no cost. Many features that are available as extra cost add-ins in other office suites (like PDF export) are free with LibreOffice. There are no hidden charges now or in the future. • Open source. You can distribute, copy, and modify the software as much as you wish, in accordance with either of LibreOffice’s Open Source licenses. • Cross-platform. LibreOffice runs on several hardware architectures and under multiple operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux,. • Extensive language support. LibreOffice’s user interface is available in over 40 languages, and the LibreOffice project provides spelling, hyphenation, and thesaurus dictionaries in over 70 languages and dialects. LibreOffice also provides support for both Complex Text Layout (CTL) and Right to Left (RTL) layout languages (such as Urdu, Hebrew, and Arabic). • Consistent user interface. All the components have a similar “look and feel,” making them easy to use and master. • Integration. The components of LibreOffice are well integrated with one another. – All the components share a common spelling checker and other tools, which are used consistently across the suite. For example, the drawing tools available in Writer are also found in Calc, with similar but enhanced versions in Impress and Draw. – You do not need to know which application was used to create a particular file. For example, you can open a Draw file from Writer. • Granularity. Usually, if you change an option, it affects all components. However, LibreOffice options can be set at a component level or even document level. • File compatibility. In addition to its native OpenDocument formats, LibreOffice includes PDF and Flash export capabilities, as well as support for opening and saving files in many common formats including Microsoft Office, HTML, XML, WordPerfect, and Lotus 1-2-3 formats. Using an extension (included): the ability to import and edit some PDF files. • No vendor lock-in. LibreOffice uses OpenDocument, an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) file format developed as an industry standard by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). These files can easily be unzipped and read by any text editor, and their framework is open and published. • You have a voice. Enhancements, software fixes, and release dates are communitydriven. You can join the community and affect the course of the product you use. You can read more about LibreOffice and The Document Foundation on their websites at http://www.libreoffice.org/ and http://www.documentfoundation.org/. Minimum requirements LibreOffice 3.x requires one of the following operating systems: • Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or higher), XP, Vista, or 7 • GNU/Linux Kernel version 2.6.18 and glibc2 version 2.5 or higher is required • Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher Chapter 1 Introducing LibreOffice 11
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Page 9: Chapter 1 Introducing LibreOffice
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Figure 54: Saving a new template An
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Caution Note If you choose Keep Old
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Resetting the default template To r
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3) Click the Commands button and ch
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Compiling an automatic table of con
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What is Writer? Writer is the word
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Section or object information When
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Working with documents Chapter 1, I
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Selecting a vertical block of text
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Tip If you click Find All, LibreOff
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Checking spelling and grammar Figur
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You can customize word completion f
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Tip Autoformatting To remove manual
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For a document with terms and trans
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Changing page margins You can chang
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To do this: 1) Place the cursor wit
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Figure 86: Inserting a bookmark Usi
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What is Calc? Calc is the spreadshe
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Figure 89. Formula Bar In a spreads
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Moving from cell to cell Figure 94:
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Selecting sheets You can select eit
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Figure 100. Insert Sheet dialog Del
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Unfreezing To unfreeze rows or colu
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Entering data using the keyboard Mo
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Caution Choices that are not availa
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Figure 111: Defining a new fill ser
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Replacing all the data in a cell To
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Shrinking text to fit the cell The
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Autoformatting cells and sheets You
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Custom sort order Select the box, t
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Details You can specify which detai
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Deleting a page break To remove a p
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Setting the contents of the header
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What is Impress? Impress is LibreOf
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Workspace views Each of the workspa
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Renaming slides Right-click on a th
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Adding tables For displaying tabula
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Styles All of the characteristics o
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Changing the color of the grid poin
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Choosing line endings Several types
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line will look. Every mouse click s
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Drawing geometric shapes Geometric
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Selections for rotating objects are
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Dynamic size modification of object
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Mirror copies Move the axis of symm
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Combining multiple objects Using Dr
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Type or paste your comment into the
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Introduction A data source, or data
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forms, and reports. Notice that a t
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Adding data to the list table List
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Figure 185: Update options and Dele
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Caution Do not use Control+click wh
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Accessing a spreadsheet as a data s
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To create a new record while in ano
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Figure 222: Query table Step 4: Set
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Chapter 9 Getting Started with Math
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Figure 250. Result of entering 5 an
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Figure 252. Symbols catalog—used
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Introduction This chapter provides
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If you choose E-mail as Microsoft [
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Chapter 11 Graphics, the Gallery, a
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Inserting an image using a scanner
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Introduction This chapter describes
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7) Chose where to save the file and
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Cursor movements are used for all o
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Importing macros The LibreOffice Ma
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Chapter 14 Customizing LibreOffice
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3) In the Save In drop-down list, c
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2) The Add Commands dialog is the s
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Assigning shortcut keys In addition
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Presenter Console Provides extra co
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Introduction You can use LibreOffic
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Managing documents Shortcut Keys Re
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How is LibreOffice licensed? LibreO
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Why do I need Java to run LibreOffi
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File formats LibreOffice can save t
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Index 3 3D objects 189 A accepting
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positioning 188 properties 287 Draw
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LibreOffice Basic Macros dialog 311
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enabling 31 quotation marks 117 R r
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user interface options 31 user inte
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