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.

File: The File menu contains various options for file management tasks: New, Open, Close, Save, Save, As, Print, Export etc.
Edit: The Edit menu contains the editing options like, cut, copy, paste, Undo, Redo etc.

A new Open Office Writer document can be created by various methods. From windows, select
(i) Start ⟶ All Programs ⟶ OpenOffice ⟶ OpenOffice Writer (or)
From Star Center (Welcome Screen):
(i) Double-click on "OpenOffice" icon on the desktop.
(ii) Now, a welcome screen.
(iii) This opening screen is called as "Star Center". Writer is one of the components of OpenOffice. So, it may be invoked from the "Star Center" by simply clicking on the "Text Document" icon (or) A new text document can also be created by selecting File ⟶  New ⟶ Text Document (or) Ctrl + N keyboard short cut can also be used to open a new text document.

(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.

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".