Open Office Tutorials
These tutorials are in PDF format and you will need a PDF reader to view them.
Open Office INTRODUCTORY Tutorials - Chapter 1
- Lesson 1 - No Computer Experience The keyboard, space bar, shift key, mouse, horizontal and vertical scroll bars, and main menu are explained
- Lesson 2 - First Time User OpenOffice Writer Open/close files, margins, undoing, inserting, toolbars, ruler, icons, and getting help.
- Lesson 3 - Word Completion Time can be saved when words are added without typing all the letters of a word
- Lesson 4 - Spellcheck and Thesaurus
- Lesson 5 - Page Layout and Template, Page size, page numbering, margins, footer, create and use a template.
- Lesson 6 - Older OpenOffice files 1.0 (.sxw) Open, work with, and save 1.0 files. Convert 1.0 files to 2.1 files
- Lesson 7 - Terms Used In Our Tutorials Words and phrases used in our tutorials.
Other Word Processing Programs - Chapter 2
- Lesson 1 - Microsoft Word Files Open, working with, and saving Microsoft files. Converting files to a different format. Sending files to others.
Styles - Chapter 3
- Lesson 1 - Introduction To Styles Styles are easy to use, provide uniformity, save time, and do many other things.
- Lesson 2 - Paragraph Styles and Table Of Contents
- Lesson 3 - Page Styles and Paragraph Styles
- Lesson 4 - Different Page Styles In a Document How to have different looking pages in a document
- Lesson 5 - Write a Poem
Graphics - Chapter 4
- Lesson 1 - Gallery Copy an image from the Gallery and work with that image
- Lesson 2 - Drawing in Writer Make your own drawing in a text file.
- Lesson 3 - Pictures In Text Files Copy a picture that you see on your screen into your OpenOffice text file and then modify the picture.
Indexes - Chapter 5
- Lesson 1 - Introduction To Indexes explains how to make, modify and delete an index. A Table Of Contents is also made
- Lesson 2 - Create and Modify A Table of Contents Paragraph styles are used to create a Table Of Contents. Hyperlinks are added so that clicking on a word(s) in the Table Of Contents will move your cursor to that section of the file.
- Lesson 3 - Tables Create, modify, and delete a table
Address Book, Labels, Envelopes, Form Letters - Chapter 6
- Lesson 1 - Mail Merge This tutorial is an introduction to Mail Merge with includes a Form Letter, Labels, Envelopes and an Address Book
- Lesson 2 - Address Book
- Lesson 3 - Print An Envelope This tutorial shows how to print a #10 envelope. This tutorial applies to any size envelope.
- Lesson 4 - Form Letter This tutorial explains how to create and save a Form Letter
- Lesson 5 - Mailing Labels and Return Address labels This tutorial creates, prints, and saves a sheet of label In the Drawing section of our website there is a Drawing tutorial for making 1.5" x 2.5" labels
Special Functions - Chapter 7
- Lesson 1 - Select, Copy & Paste, Cut & Paste, Drag This tutorial explains how to use Highlight, Copy, Cut, Paste, and Drag.
- Lesson 2 - Frames Create, modify, link and delete frames.
- Lesson 3 - Change a Document (Red Lining or Tracking Changes)
- Lesson 4 - Formula Editor Write symbolic mathematical formulas in a text document
- Lesson 5 - Icons On Toolbars This tutorial explains how to add, delete, replace and rearrange icons on your Standard Toolbar and your Formatting Toolbar. This tutorial applies to icons on any toolbar
- Lesson 6 - Macros A macro is a sequence of keystrokes that are recorded (saved) and given a name. When the Macro is run (selected) by a few keystrokes, the recorded keystrokes are "automatically" performed.
- Lesson 7 - Create A Newsletter
Template - Chapter 8
- Lesson 1 - Introduction To Templates Explains templates and their uses
- Lesson 2 - Template For a Simple Letter This tutorial has basic information about templates. A template is created and saved then the template is used to create a simple letter. Click here to see or print the results of doing this tutorial.
- Lesson 3 - Create A Template This tutorial has miscellaneous information about templates. It includes instructions to make your own default template.
- Lesson 4 - Manage Templates This tutorial explains the management of templates. Subjects covered include Importing, Editing, and Deleting templates.
- Lesson 5 - Simple Document Template Instructions The tutorial explains how to use a simple template that any author or company might use. The template may be modified for a particular Users needs.
Master Document - Chapter 9
- Lesson 1 - Master Documents This tutorial explains what is a master Document
- Lesson 2 - Create a Master Document This tutorial creates separate documents that are combined into a book with chapters.
- Lesson 3 - Master Document For My Cookbook This tutorial creates a "Cookbook" that has a table-of-contents, introduction, Chapters, Sub-chapters, and an alphabetical index.
Writing and Using Tutorials - Chapter 10
This Chapter explains how to use OpenOffice to write and use tutorials. The information can be modified for your specific writing project.- Lesson 1 - How To Use A Tutorial This page explains how to use tutorials in a Teacher-Student setting and in a Self-Teaching setting. A teacher may be professional or nonprofessional
- Lesson 2 - How To Write A Tutorial has the step-by-step procedure used to write a tutorial.
- Lesson 3 - Tutorials Without Graphics This tutorial explains the benefits of a tutorial without graphics and how to create such a tutorial.
- Lesson 4 - Create a Tutorial This tutorial has general background information about tutorials and some information on standardization. Instructions on how to write a tutorial are given.