Text Creation and Manipulation in LibreOffice Writer

In LibreOffice Writer, text can be written and manipulated like text selection, editing, moving and copying text, text formatting, paragraph formatting etc.

Document Creation-

It is very simple to create a new document in writer either using template or blank text document.

Editing Text-

Like MS Word, LibreOffice Writer also provide facility to edit your existing document as you require with the help of different formatting tools, mouse and keyboard.

Text Selection-

You can easily select text written in writer document. You can select a letter, word, sentence, paragraph, and entire document according to your need. To select from mouse use click and drag and to select from keyboard use shift and arrow keys. Such as double click select a wod and triple click select paragraph.

Cut (Ctrl+X), Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) -

LibreOffice Writer allow you to move text or graphics object from one place to another in the same document or other document by using cut and paste option and suppose you want to repeat text or graphics object in document again and again then use copy and paste option. For both cut and copy option use you need to first select the text or graphics object.

Formatting Text-

Writer allow you to change text formatting according to your need like font color, font size, style, and other text effect like bold, italic, underline etc. You can apply these formatting from format menu or side bar. 

Alignment of Text-

Alignment refers to the position or arrangement of the text or object in writer document. There are number of alignment in LibreOffice Writer such as, Left, Right, Center, Justify. The default paragraph alignment is Left. You can apply this from format menu or side bar other keyboard shortcuts.

Undo & Redo-

Undo option allow to cancel or remove the last change taken place in the document such as editing, formatting, etc. To apply undo go to edit menu or press Ctrl+Z. And redo option allow to repeat the last change that is canceled by undo command. To apply undo go to edit menu or press Ctrl+Y.

Auto Correct & Check Spelling-

In LibreOffice Writer you can check spelling and grammar by running the Check spelling option from the Tool Menu or press F7 keyboard shortcut. Auto correct is features of word processor that identifies misspelled word and give the suggested word accordingly. 

Find and Replace (Ctrl+H)-

In LibreOffice Writer the Find and Replace option allow you to fine text, word or phrase up to 255 character in your document and replace it with another as you want. This is available in edit menu and standard toolbar.

Paragraph Indentation-

Indentation determines the distance of the paragraph from either the left or the right margin. Within the margins you can increase or decrease the indentation of a paragraph or group of paragraphs. You can also create a negative indent (outdent), which pull the paragraph out toward the left margin. You can create first line indent of paragraph. 

Line & Paragraph Spacing-

Line and paragraph spacing is the gaps between the lines and paragraph accordingly. You can set this according to your need. You can apply this option from format menu, toolbar, sidebar.

Bullets and Numbering-

Bullets and Numbering are one of the most commonly used tools in LibreOffice Writer. It is used for listing a document in bulleted list or numbered list. You can apply this from toolbar or format menu or from sidebar.

Change Case-

Change case is a option used to present the alphabetical character in capital letter or small letter. These representation of letter is known as case. There are many case used in LibreOffice Writer which facilitates a user to change the case of the selected text like Sentence case, UPPER CASE, lower case, Capitalize Every Word, and tOGGLE cASE.

Header and Footer-

Headers are the portion of document that always appear at the top of a page, and footer appear at the bottom of a page. Generally header and footer display general information of document that we made such as title, chapter name, page number, author name etc. Header and footer can help keep large documents organized and make them easier to navigate. Normally text entered in the header and footer will appear on each page of entire document, but you can create separate header and footer for a section of a document. You can apply this in many way such as, go to insert menu and choose header and footer option or click the top and bottom of page to activate header and footer.