Getting Started Guide

To change margins using the rulers:
1) The gray sections of the rulers are the margins. Put the mouse cursor over the
line between the gray and white sections. The pointer turns into a double-
headed arrow.
2) Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse to move the margin.
Figure 83: Moving the margins
Tip
The small arrows on the ruler are used for indenting paragraphs. They
are often in the same place as the page margins, so you need to be
careful to move the margin marker, not the arrows. Place the mouse
pointer between the arrows and, when the pointer turns into a double-
headed arrow, you can move the margin (the indent arrows will move
with it).
To change margins using the Page Style dialog:
1) Right-click anywhere on the page and select Page from the pop-up menu.
2) On the Page tab of the dialog, type the required distances in the Margins
boxes.
Adding comments to a document
Authors and reviewers often use comments (formerly called “notes”) to exchange
ideas, ask for suggestions, or mark items needing attention.
To insert a comment in the text, place the cursor in the place the comment refers to
and choose Insert > Comment or press Ctrl+Alt+N. The anchor point of the
comment is connected by a dotted line to a box on the right-hand side of the page
where you can type the text of the comment. Writer automatically adds at the bottom
of the comment the author’s name and a time stamp indicating when the comment
was created. Figure 84 shows an example of text with comments from two different
authors.
Choose Tools > Options > User Data to configure the name you want to appear in
the Author field of the comment, or to change it.
If more than one person edits the document, each author is automatically allocated a
different background color.
Right-clicking on a comment pops up a menu where you can delete the current
comment, all the comments from the same author, or all the comments in the
document. From this menu, you can also apply some basic formatting to the text of
the comment. You can also change the font type, size, and alignment from the main
menu.
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