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OpenOffice.org Writer offers a variety of useful features to help you create basic text documents as well as long and complex or multi-part documents that may include components such as bibliographies, reference tables and indexes. Some of these features are: <placeholder-1/>

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You can perform a number of word-processing tasks, such as writing, editing, formatting, reviewing and printing documents, using OpenOffice.org Writer. The word processor also allows you to use various templates, apply different styles to your document, control your page layout and insert, edit and create graphics inside your text document. Instructions to perform some of the basic word-processing tasks in Writer are described in the following sections.

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You can view the various categories of available templates in the middle column of the Templates and Documents dialogue box. If you want to use a template to create your document, you can double-click a category. This will display the various templates associated with that category. Select a template of your choice and then start working on it.

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After you have created the document, you can use the various formatting features provided in Writer to change the text display or emphasise specific areas in your document. You can use the following options available on the <emphasis role="strong">Formatting</emphasis> toolbar to perform some of the most common formatting tasks.

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You can use the <emphasis role="strong">Style and Formatting</emphasis> window to perform a complete document makeover.

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By default, when you open the <emphasis role="strong">Style and Formatting</emphasis> window, the <emphasis role="strong">Paragraph</emphasis><emphasis role="strong">Style</emphasis> icon is selected. All the styles listed in this category are displayed in the <emphasis role="strong">Style and Formatting</emphasis> window. You can start restyling individual parts of the current document by selecting specific parts of the document and applying an existing style by double-clicking that style.

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However, if you want to modify an existing style, you can simply right-click that style and select <emphasis role="strong">Modify.</emphasis> This displays a new pop-up window. You can redefine almost all aspects of the selected style using the various options available under the different tabs.

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Specify the table properties and click <emphasis role="strong">OK.</emphasis> The table is inserted at the specified location in your text document. By default, Writer creates a table as wide as the page margins, with all the rows having the same height and all the columns having the same width. To adjust the column and rows and customise the table further, right-click the table and select <emphasis role="strong">Table</emphasis> from the short-cut menu. The <emphasis role="strong">Table Format</emphasis> dialogue box opens.

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OpenOffice.org allows you to import images of various file formats, including the most common file types such as JPEG, PNG, BMP and GIF. Images can be inserted from a file, the OpenOffice.org Gallery, a scanner, the Internet, or a graphics programme.

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To insert the file, navigate to the desired file and select it. You can select the <emphasis role="strong">Preview</emphasis> check box at the bottom of the <emphasis role="strong">Insert Picture</emphasis> dialogue box to preview the selected image in a pane and verify whether you have selected the correct image. Click <emphasis role="strong">Open</emphasis> to insert the image in your document.