Openoffice is a productive office suite with a collection of different software packages such as
(i) Openoffice writer - Word processor to create text documents
(ii) Openoffice calc - Spreadsheet to create worksheets
(iii) Openoffice Base - Database
(iv) Openoffice Impress - Presentation Software
(v) Openoffice Draw - Drawing software
(vi) Openofice Forumula - Create formula and equations..

Word processor is a computer software to create, edit, manipulate, transmit, store and retrieve a text document. The above said activities are called as word processing.

Word Art helps to apply Special effects and change the appearance of the text to make it more presentable and attractive.

1. Hyperlink is a reference to data that the reduce can directly follow either by clicking or tapping.
2. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document.

(i) Rightclick \(\rightarrow\)line spacing, select the type single, 1.5 or double.
(ii) Select the entire document by Edit\(\rightarrow\) Select All
(iii) Format- paragraph
(iv) The paragraph dialog box appears, click Indents & Spacing tab
(v) In the line spacing option, select the type and click OK button.

(i) You can save by clicking File \(\rightarrow\) Save on top left corner and then click File \(\rightarrow\) Save As or Ctrl+Shift+S. After that browse the location where exactly you want to save in your computer.
(ii) You can also save by just pressing Ctrl + S and then browse the location where you want to save.
(iii) All documents in OpenOffice writer will be stored with .odt extension. You can store your OpenOffice document as Microsoft Word document or pdf.

To insert rows or columns inside a table:
(i) Place the cursor in the row or in the column where you would like to add new rows or columns and right-click.
(ii) Choose Row ➝ Insert - to insert a row or Column ➝ Insert - to insert a column. A dialog box will appear, from which you can select the number of rows or columns to insert. You can also set the position of the new rows or columns to Before or After.
To split a cell:
(i) Place the cursor inside the cell.
(ii) Right click and choose Cell ➝ Split, or choose Table ➝ Split Cells from the menu bar.
(iii) Select the direction of the split, horizontally (for rows), or vertically (for columns), as well as the total number of cells to create.

Comments:
Comments also called "notes", which authors and reviewers often use to exchange ideas ask for suggestions or brainstorm during the review process.
Footnotes:
Afoot note will contain the source of the information or additional information about the text contained in the document. It appear at the bottom of a page.
End notes:
At end note is additional information or credits given at the end of the document instead of at the end of each page.

Drawing toolbar is used to create various shapes in a document using various drawing tools. The drawing toolbar can be obtained by clicking. View Toolbars Drawing or The user can change the properties (till color, line type and weight, anchoring) for the tool appear in a document.

OpenOffice Writer has a Find and Replace feature that helps to locate for a text inside a document and replace it with another word.
Click Edit Find & Replace (or) Ctrl + F
The Find & Replace dialog box appears as shown.
Steps to Find & Replace a text :
(i) Type the text you want to find in the Search forbox For Example : To search a word "Bombay" in a document and replace with "Mumbai", enter the word "Bombay" in the Search for box.
(ii) Enter the word " Mumbai" in the Replace with box and Click Find button, to start the search, the found word is highlighted and the first occurrence of "Bombay" is highlighted.
(iii) To replace text, click Replace button.
The highlighted word is replaced with the word given in the Replace with box.
(iv) Click Find All Writer selects all instances of the search text in the document.
All occurrences of Bombay are highlighted.
(v) Click Replace All button, Writer replaces all matches.
This will replace all occurrences of "Bombay" with "Mumbai".
(vi) Enable Match caseto perform the search case sensitively so that uppercase and lower cases are distinguished separately.
(vii) Enable Whole Words only to make the search more specific to words. For example, if you search for the word "Image", the command will only find Image" not "Imaging" "Images" etc.

Writer provides these important features:
(i) Templates and styles.
(ii) Page layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables.
(iii) Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects.
(iv) Built-in drawing tools.
(v) Master documents-to group a collection of documents into a single document.
(vi) Change tracking during revisions.
(vii) Database integration, including a bibliography database.
(viii) Export to PDF, including bookmarks.

OpenOffice writer uses the drawing tools, to create various shapes by using the Drawing toolbar. To use the drawing tools repeatedly, you can move this toolbar to a convenient place on the window. The drawing tool bar can be obtained by clicking View ➝ Toolbars ➝ Drawing.
To use a drawing tool, the steps are as given below:
(i) Click in the document where you want the drawing to be anchored.
(ii) Select the tool from the Drawing toolbar as shown in Figure 6.44 The mouse pointer changes to a drawing-functions pointer.
(iii) Move the cross-hair pointer to the place in the document where you want the graphic to appear and then click-and-drag to create the drawing object.
(iv) Release the mouse button. The selected drawing function remains active, so you can draw another object of the same type.
(v) To cancel the selected drawing function, press the Esc key or click on the Select icon on the Drawing toolbar.
(vi) now change the properties (fill color, line type and weight, anchoring, and others) of the drawing object using either the Drawing Object Properties toolbar or the choices in the dialog box.

Page margins are the white space around the top, bottom, left and right of your document.
Changing or setting page margins in openoffice writer can be done in two ways:
(i) Using the Rulers - quick and easy, but does not have precise values.
(ii) Using the Page Style dialog box - can specify precise values for the margins.
Changing Page Margins using Ruler:
(i) The shaded sections of the rulers are the margins.
(ii) Hold the mouse pointer over the line between the gray and white sections.
(iii) The mouse pointer turns into a double-headed arrow.
(iv) Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse to move the margin and release it at the required point.
(v) The new margin is set.
Using the Page Style Dialog Box:
To change margins using the Page Style dialog box
(i) Right-click anywhere on the page and select Page from the popup menu or select page tab of page style dialog box.
(ii) In the Margins boxes, specify the values for left, right, top and bottom margins.
(iii) Click on OK button.