Formatting Toolbar The formatting tool bar is below the standard toolbar which consists of icons used for formatting the text like bold, underline, italics, font type, font color etc.

There are two toolbars available by default. They are:
(1) Standard Toolbar
(2) Formatting Toolbar.

Tamil OpenOffice writer, Tamil LibreOffice Writer, Kamban 3.0, Mentamizh 2017 these are familiar word processors exclusively for Tamil Language.

When the text reaches the end of the line, the word is automatically wrapped to the next line. This feature in any word processor is known as "Word Wrap".

The ruler is a scale below the formatting tool bar which shows the margins. There are two set of rulers
(1) Horizontal ruler and
(2) Vertical ruler.
Horizontal ruler is used to set left and right margins of a page and vertical ruler for top and bottom setting.

Format: The Format menu contains options of various text and page formatting features like page size, layout, font characteristics, bullets and numbering etc.
Table: The Table menu contains various tools to manage and manipulate tables such as create table, insert rows, insert columns, split cells, merge cells etc.

View: The View menu contains the options which are used to modify the environment of Writer like display of toolbars, web layout, print layout, navigator etc.
Insert: The Insert menu contains options for inserting various elements such as pictures, tables, charts, comments, headers, footers, special characters etc.

(i) It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.
(ii) It stores all your data in an International open standard format and can also read and write files, from other common office software packages. OpenOffice is easy to learn.

To apply Numbering:
(i) Select the text to be numbered.
(ii) Format ⟶ Bullets and Numbering.
(iii) Select Numbering type Tab.
(iv) The Bullets and Numbering dialog box appears with different styles of numbering are displayed.
(v) Click on the required style.
(vi) Click Ok button.
(vii) The selected text is numbered.

The style of bullets and numbering can be changed by applying the following steps:
(i) Select the text to be bulleted
(ii) Format ⟶ Bullets and Numbering
(iii) Select Bullets Tab
(iv) The Bullets and Numbering dialog box appears with different styles of bullets are displayed.
(v) Click on the required style.
(vi) Click OK button.
(vii) The selected text is bulleted.
(viii) The Bullets and Numbering dialog box with the bullets tab is displayed.

Coping text:
To copy a text from one location to another
(i) Select the text to be copied
(ii) Click Ctrl + C or Copy Icon or Edit ⟶ Copy
(iii) A duplicate copy of the text is made and send to the clipboard
(iv) Take the insertion pointer to the new location to be copied and
(v) Click Ctrl + V or Paste Icon or Edit ⟶ Paste
(vi) The required text is copied to the required location.

To save a document for a first time, the following steps are used:
(i) Click File ⟶ Save ⟶ (or) File ⟶ Save As (or) Ctrl + S
(ii) "Save As" dialog box.
(iii) Select location to store your document. The default location to store all documents is "Documents" folder in Windows.
(iv) Type your document name in the File Name text box.
(v) All documents in OpenOffice will be stored with .odt extension. You can store your OpenOffice document as Microsoft Word document or PDF. To do so, select file type from Save as list box and select the required file type.
(vi) Finally, Click "Save" button.
(vii) Once the file is saved, your document name will be displayed on the title bar.