Quick Start Guide

Add contacts by clicking on Chat > Add Contacts. Select the account, the Identier
(ID), and the alias information that is relevant to the new content, and conrm with
Add. However, you must be online and connected to the selected messaging service
to add a contact to your list.
To start a chat, double-click on the desired contact and type your message in the
lower part of the chat window. Press [Enter] to send the message. The upper part of
the window displays the messages you have sent and received.
3.11 Starting LibreOce
LibreOce oers comprehensive and powerful oce programs, including a text
processing program, a table calculation application, a program for the creation of
presentations, a vector graphic program and a database application. Because Libre-
Oce is available for a number of operating systems, you can use the documents
across dierent operating systems.
To start LibreOce switch to the activities view (for example, by pressing the [Win-
dows] key) and then click on the blue document. Alternatively, type writer in the
search box and press [Enter]. In fallback mode, click on Applications > Oce > Libre-
Oce Writer. If you would like to create a new document, click on File > New and
select the document type. To open an existing document, select Open, then select
the le you want from the le system.
3.12 Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents
Documents that need to be shared or printed across platforms are often saves as
PDF (Portable Document Format) les. PDF les can be created using the LibreOce
suite or other applications. The PDF viewer of GNOME is called Evince. It can be used
to view PDFs and many other document formats like PostScript, DjVu, DVI, and multi-
page TIFFs.
To start Evince, press [Alt] + [F2 ] and enter evince.
1 To view a PDF le, double-click on the le you want.
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