48 Help
Under the menu Help you will find easy to follow step-by-step instructions. While hovering
with your mouse pointer over any button or menu, you will also be offered shorter or longer
“tips” depending on your settings in Tools › Options › OpenOffice.org › General.
Using Google you will usually find very useful and concise help too: simply type in a couple
keywords and the term “OpenOffice” and that’s it.
49 Getting Apache OpenOffice
Just go to openoffice.org and download the appropriate complete installation file for your lan-
guage and your operating system. Installation shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. After-
wards, under menu Tools, you can modify a few settings such as your preferred font.
50 Basic Practice
1. Download non-formatted exercise file “prax-en.txt”:
• go to openoffice-uni.org
• in the English section Right-click on file [txt]
• choose option save link as
• choose location Desktop
• confirm you want to Save your file
2. Open practice file with Apache OpenOffice:
• go to your Desktop
• right-click on your downloaded file
• choose option Open With
• choose programme swriter
• when asked confirm West European Encoding
3. So as to avoid losing your work save your file anew in OpenOffice format:
• open Menu File › Save as…
• choose File type › ODF Text Document (.odt)
• confirm with Save
4. Apply paragraph Style “Text Body” to your entire text:
• mark the complete text using keyboard shortcut Ctrl + a
• apply paragraph style Text Body using shortcut Ctrl + 0
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