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Practical 1 Describe Parts of The Libreoffice Writer Window

The document describes how to perform various tasks in LibreOffice Writer, including: 1) It explains the different parts of the Writer window such as the title bar, menu bar, toolbars, status bar, and scroll buttons. 2) It provides steps to create a new document, save it, and then open an existing document. 3) It demonstrates how to select, cut, copy, paste, and move text by using editing tools. 4) It inserts an image into a document by copying and pasting or inserting from a file. 5) It creates a table and demonstrates how to insert and delete rows and columns.

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Practical 1 Describe Parts of The Libreoffice Writer Window

The document describes how to perform various tasks in LibreOffice Writer, including: 1) It explains the different parts of the Writer window such as the title bar, menu bar, toolbars, status bar, and scroll buttons. 2) It provides steps to create a new document, save it, and then open an existing document. 3) It demonstrates how to select, cut, copy, paste, and move text by using editing tools. 4) It inserts an image into a document by copying and pasting or inserting from a file. 5) It creates a table and demonstrates how to insert and delete rows and columns.

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PRACTICAL 1
Describe Parts of the LibreOffice Writer window.
The various parts of the Writer window have been briefly explained below.
(a) Title bar: Title bar is located on the top of Writer window. It shows the title of the
currently opened document. The name of the document means the file name of the
document saved on the disk.
(b) Menu bar: It appears below the Title Bar. It shows the menu items File, Edit, View,
Insert, Format, Tables, Tools, Window and Help. On selecting a menu item, its
submenu will open below the menu item. We can select any item in the submenu as per
the requirement.
(c) Tool bars: The Tool bar appears below Menu Bar. By default, the Standard Tool Bar
and Formatting Tool Bar will appear. The other tool bars can be activated by clicking on
‘View’ menu and selecting the ‘Toolbars’ of submenu.
(d) Standard toolbar: It contains commands in the form of icons.
(e) Formatting toolbar: It contains the various options for formatting a document. A
graphical representation of commands is shown in the form of icons.
(f) Status bar: This is positioned at the left bottom of the Writer window and displays
the number of pages, words, the language used, zooming, etc. It is located at the
bottom of the workspace.
(g) Scroll button and Scroll bar: It is used to scroll the document.
(h) Zoom: It allows to change the scale of the text and pictures in the document only for
view. It does not affect the physical document.
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PRACTICAL 2
Using LibreOffice Writer, CREATE a new document, SAVE and CLOSE
it. Then OPEN the existing document.
Step 1 Create a new text document by using File → New → Text Document

Step 2 Now save the file by clicking on the File → Save.


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Step 3 Give the name of the file (for example: Report). By default, the file is saved in
.odt format.

Step 4 The file Report.odt has been created.


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Step 5 After finishing the work, close the file, as too many opened files will cause a
disturbance in working. To close the file, select File → Close.

Step 6 It may further require to open a file for editing. Select File → Open
and the document will be open for editing.
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PRACTICAL 3
Demonstrate editing of text in a document using LibreOffice Writer.
Use the keyboard and mouse options to select, cut, copy, paste, and
move text.
For editing the text you must first select the required text. The editing can be done on
the selected text.A portion of the text can be selected by clicking and dragging. To do
this, position the mouse pointer at the beginning point of the selection, click and hold the
left mouse button down, and move the mouse pointer to the end of the desired
selection.
Moving and copying text
Cut and Paste: It is used to move a selected text from one place to another.
1.Select the text and click on Edit → Cut option or press CTRL+X.
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2. Place the cursor where the text has to be moved. Click on Edit → Paste option or
press CTRL+V.

The document has been edited.


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Copy and Paste


It is used to make a duplicate copy of selected text.
1.Select the text and click on Edit→ Copy option or press CTRL+C.

2.Place the cursor where the text has to be duplicated. Click on Edit → Paste option or
press CTRL+V
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The document has been modified.


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PRACTICAL 4
Insert an image in a document using LibreOffice Writer.
The regular text in the document can be made attractive and more informative by inserting
various elements like images, shapes and special characters.
1.If we wish to include any picture or image in our document, the image file should be
stored in our hard disk or external storage, such as Pen drive. To insert an image in our
document first Copy the image and position the cursor where you want to insert the file
Then right click the mouse and select Paste.

The document has been inserted with the selected image.


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2. Another alternative is, just click on the insert image icon, located below the
Formatting Toolbar.

A file manager will appear from where you can select the image file. Select the image
file and click on Open button or just double click on the image file.
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The image got inserted in the file.


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PRACTICAL 5
Demonstrate the following in LibreOffice Writer.
• Create a table.
• Insert and delete rows and column in a table.
1.The simplest way to create a table is, click the Table icon on the Standard toolbar. On
the drop-down graphic, choose the size of the table. To create the table, click on the cell
representing the last row of the last column that you want.

The table has been created.


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2.Another way to create a table is by using the Table dialog. Position the cursor where
you want to insert the table, then select Table → Insert Table from the Menu bar or
Press Ctrl+F12.

Select the number of columns and rows to be created and click Insert.
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The table with desired number of columns and rows are created.

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