Chapter8.Creating Text Documents with OpenOffice.org Writer

Chapter 8. Creating Text Documents with OpenOffice.org Writer

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

• What OpenOffice.org is and what applications are included with it

• How to launch the OpenOffice.org Writer application

• How to create a new word processing document

• How to control basic formatting and layout

• How to open, save, and print your Writer documents

In this chapter, you learn to create documents in the Linux desktop environment using OpenOffice.org Writer, a full-featured word processor that is part of the OpenOffice.org applications suite included with Fedora Core 4. By the end of the chapter, you should be able to create, print, and save your own pleasing, professional-quality text documents.