Getting Started Guide

Contents
Chapter 1
Introducing OpenOffice.org.........................................................................................9
What is OpenOffice.org?..........................................................................................10
The advantages of OpenOffice.org...........................................................................11
Minimum requirements........................................................................................... 12
How to get the software...........................................................................................12
How to install the software......................................................................................13
Extensions and add-ons...........................................................................................13
How to get help........................................................................................................ 13
Starting OpenOffice.org........................................................................................... 14
Parts of the main window.........................................................................................17
What are all these things called?.............................................................................22
Starting a new document.........................................................................................23
Opening an existing document................................................................................23
Saving a document................................................................................................... 24
Renaming and deleting files....................................................................................25
Using the Open and Save As dialogs.......................................................................25
Using the Navigator.................................................................................................27
Undoing and redoing changes.................................................................................28
Closing a document..................................................................................................29
Closing OpenOffice.org............................................................................................30
Using OpenOffice.org on a Mac...............................................................................30
Chapter 2
Setting up OpenOffice.org.........................................................................................31
Choosing options for all of OOo...............................................................................32
Choosing options for loading and saving documents...............................................46
Choosing language settings.....................................................................................51
Choosing Internet options........................................................................................53
Controlling OOo’s AutoCorrect functions................................................................54
Chapter 3
Using Styles and Templates.......................................................................................55
What is a template?................................................................................................. 56
What are styles?....................................................................................................... 56
Applying styles......................................................................................................... 57
Modifying styles....................................................................................................... 59
Creating new (custom) styles...................................................................................61
Copying and moving styles......................................................................................62
Deleting styles......................................................................................................... 64
Using a template to create a document...................................................................65
Creating a template................................................................................................. 66
Editing a template.................................................................................................... 68
Adding templates using the Extension Manager.....................................................69
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