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Editing a template......................................................................................................................63 Adding templates using the Extension Manager........................................................................64 Setting a default template..........................................................................................................65 Associating a document with a different template......................................................................66 Organizing templates.................................................................................................................67 Examples of style use................................................................................................................68 Chapter 4 Getting Started with Writer...........................................................................................................71 What is Writer?..........................................................................................................................72 The Writer interface...................................................................................................................72 Changing document views........................................................................................................74 Moving quickly through a document..........................................................................................75 Working with documents...........................................................................................................76 Working with text.......................................................................................................................77 Formatting text..........................................................................................................................85 Formatting pages......................................................................................................................88 Adding comments to a document..............................................................................................92 Creating a table of contents.......................................................................................................93 Creating indexes and bibliographies..........................................................................................94 Working with graphics...............................................................................................................94 Printing......................................................................................................................................94 Using mail merge......................................................................................................................94 Tracking changes to a document...............................................................................................95 Using fields................................................................................................................................95 Linking to another part of a document.......................................................................................95 Using master documents...........................................................................................................98 Creating fill-in forms...................................................................................................................98 Chapter 5 Getting Started with Calc.............................................................................................................99 What is Calc?..........................................................................................................................100 Spreadsheets, sheets and cells...............................................................................................100 Parts of the main Calc window................................................................................................100 Opening and saving CSV files.................................................................................................103 Navigating within spreadsheets...............................................................................................105 Selecting items in a sheet or spreadsheet...............................................................................108 Working with columns and rows...............................................................................................110 Working with sheets.................................................................................................................111 Viewing Calc............................................................................................................................113 Entering data using the keyboard............................................................................................116 Speeding up data entry............................................................................................................117 Sharing content between sheets.............................................................................................120 Validating cell contents............................................................................................................121 Editing data.............................................................................................................................121 Formatting data.......................................................................................................................122 Autoformatting cells and sheets...............................................................................................126 4 Getting Started with LibreOffice 3.3
Formatting spreadsheets using themes...................................................................................127 Using conditional formatting....................................................................................................127 Hiding and showing data.........................................................................................................127 Sorting records........................................................................................................................129 Printing....................................................................................................................................130 Chapter 6 Getting Started with Impress......................................................................................................137 What is Impress?.....................................................................................................................138 Starting Impress......................................................................................................................138 Parts of the main Impress window...........................................................................................138 Workspace views.....................................................................................................................142 Creating a new presentation....................................................................................................146 Formatting a presentation........................................................................................................149 Adding and formatting text.......................................................................................................151 Adding pictures, tables, charts and media...............................................................................155 Working with slide masters and styles.....................................................................................157 Adding comments to a presentation........................................................................................163 Setting up the slide show.........................................................................................................163 Running the slide show...........................................................................................................164 Chapter 7 Getting Started with Draw..........................................................................................................165 What is Draw?.........................................................................................................................166 The Draw workspace...............................................................................................................166 Choosing and defining colors..................................................................................................169 Positioning objects with snap functions...................................................................................170 Positioning objects with guiding lines.......................................................................................172 The basic drawing shapes.......................................................................................................172 Drawing geometric shapes......................................................................................................178 Selection modes......................................................................................................................179 Selecting objects.....................................................................................................................180 Moving and dynamically adjusting an object’s size..................................................................181 Editing objects.........................................................................................................................183 Using styles.............................................................................................................................185 Special effects.........................................................................................................................185 Combining multiple objects......................................................................................................188 Aids for positioning objects......................................................................................................188 Inserting and editing pictures...................................................................................................189 Working with 3D objects..........................................................................................................189 Exporting graphics...................................................................................................................189 Adding comments to a drawing...............................................................................................189 Chapter 8 Getting Started with Base..........................................................................................................191 Introduction..............................................................................................................................192 Planning a database................................................................................................................193 Creating a new database.........................................................................................................193 Getting Started with LibreOffice 3.3 5
Page 1 and 2: Getting Started with LibreOffice 3.
Page 3: Contents Copyright.................
Page 7 and 8: Chapter 13 Getting Started with Mac
Page 9 and 10: Chapter 1 Introducing LibreOffice
Page 11 and 12: standalone tool. You can save formu
Page 13 and 14: Free LibreOffice support FAQs Docum
Page 15 and 16: Parts of the main window The main w
Page 17 and 18: Docking/floating windows and toolba
Page 19 and 20: What are all these things called? T
Page 21 and 22: You can also open an existing docum
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Page 25 and 26: Figure 14: Navigation toolbar • T
Page 27 and 28: Chapter 2 Setting up LibreOffice Ch
Page 29 and 30: Figure 19: Filling in user data Gen
Page 31 and 32: Memory options In the Options dialo
Page 33 and 34: Graphics output - Use anti-aliasing
Page 35 and 36: Tip Color options You can use the e
Page 37 and 38: On the LibreOffice - Fonts page: 1)
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Page 41 and 42: General Load/Save options Most of t
Page 43 and 44: • If you are importing a Microsof
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Page 47 and 48: • Check special regions includes
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Page 51 and 52: What is a template? A template is a
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Caution Make sure that there are un
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Using the Template Management dialo
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Caution Deleting styles If your doc
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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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Note Turning on hyphenation for the
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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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• To hyperlink to an object such
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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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Figure 92: Text Import dialog, with
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Moving from cell to cell Figure 94:
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If you have a lot of sheets, then s
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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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Figure 120: Hiding or showing cells
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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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It is also possible to perform the
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Workspace views Each of the workspa
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Figure 135: Dialog to set the page
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Renaming slides Right-click on a th
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5) Click Next. The Presentation Wiz
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Tip If you do not know the names fo
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There are two types of text boxes t
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In text boxes created automatically
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Adding tables For displaying tabula
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Styles All of the characteristics o
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Figure 146: Loading slide masters f
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Figure 147: Configuring the slide f
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To hide a slide, right-click on the
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What is Draw? Draw is a vector grap
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Status bar The Status bar is locate
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Figure 155. Changing the color pale
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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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You can change some properties from
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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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On the first page of the Database W
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Figure 176: Selecting fields for th
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forms, and reports. Notice that a t
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Figure 179: Changing field properti
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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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Step 4: Get joined fields. Figure 1
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Figure 191: A selected control •
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Caution Do not use Control+click wh
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Note Figure 199: Type of list conte
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To widen the Date column, move the
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Tip b) Right-click the Heading 2 st
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Accessing a spreadsheet as a data s
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Writer documents To insert a field
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• To select multiple rows, hold d
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To create a new record while in ano
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Figure 219: Sorting order page 1) C
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Figure 222: Query table Step 4: Set
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Figure 228: Typing in calculation o
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Note Creating reports To fully use
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Step 5: Choose layout Use default s
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Figure 240: Adding an additional fi
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Figure 243: Realigned columns in a
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Chapter 9 Getting Started with Math
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You can enter a formula in three wa
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Figure 250. Result of entering 5 an
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Figure 252. Symbols catalog—used
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How can I make a formula bigger? Th
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Markup Result int from Re f ∫ ℜ
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The fn is replaced by a numbered fo
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Introduction This chapter provides
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Figure 265: General print options P
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Figure 267: Printing a selection of
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a) In the Ranges and copies section
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2) Click Properties to open the Pro
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Figure 271: General page of PDF Opt
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Figure 272: Initial View page of PD
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Security page of PDF Options dialog
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If you choose E-mail as Microsoft [
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Figure 281: Sending a document as a
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Chapter 11 Graphics, the Gallery, a
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Figure 282. Insert picture dialog L
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Inserting an image using a scanner
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By default, the Gallery is docked a
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5) When done, click the Save icon t
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The selected drawing function remai
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Figure 290. The Fontwork Gallery 2)
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Using the Formatting toolbar Now le
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Figure 295: 3D-Settings toolbar Mov
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Introduction This chapter describes
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You can also use the Navigator to i
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To erase the link text or button fr
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2) Choose or browse to the document
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7) Chose where to save the file and
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• WebCast: generates an ASP or Pe
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9) Click Create to generate the HTM
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Your first macros A macro is a save
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4) Be certain to open the library c
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There are advanced topics that are
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4) Press Tab to add the tab without
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Cursor movements are used for all o
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A computer scientist would use Figu
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Importing macros The LibreOffice Ma
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2) Select the library and module in
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Figure 311: Assign macro to an appl
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Writing macros without the recorder
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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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Figure 316: Adding a command to a m
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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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4) Click Save. A confirmation dialo
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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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Appendix B Open Source, Open Standa
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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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