OpenOffice.org 2, Firefox, and Thunderbird for Windows All in One [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.

Select Text to Work With

Select text using standard Windows selection tools (such as holding the

Shift key as you press arrow keys) to select more than one character at a time. You might want to select a large block of text for deletion or to apply a special format to that selected text (see

12 Apply Character Formatting ). The selected text appears in "reverse video," meaning that it is white text on a black background.12 Apply Character Formatting ).

5.

View and Hide Special Editing Characters

Click the

Nonprinting Characters button in the

Main toolbar (or press

Ctrl+F10 ) to turn on nonprinting characters, which show you where paragraph divisions, blank spaces, and other editing elements occur. These nonprinting characters don''t print (unless you change the printing option to show them, as mentioned in

1 Set Writer Options ) but can appear on the screen so that you''ll know exactly what you''re editing.

Click the

Nonprinting Characters button on the

Main toolbar button (or press

Ctrl+F10 ) again to turn off the display of nonprinting characters.

TIP

If you want to count the words in a particular passage of text rather than in the whole document, use the

Word Count feature. First, select the text you want to countit can be a sentence, a paragraph, or any text selection within a document. Then choose

Tools, Word Count and view the results in the

Word Count dialog box.

6.

View Document Statistics

As you type text into your document, you can maintain an accurate word count, along with other document statistics, by selecting the

Properties option from the

File menu.

Click the

Statistics tab to view the

Statistics page in the

Properties dialog box. Here you see counts of various objects in your document, such as the number of paragraphs, words, characters, and lines. If you''re writing for a magazine, for example, word count is an important statistic to track; if you''re trying to fit all the text on a single page, you might want to keep track of the number of lines.

When you''ve viewed the statistics for your current document, click

OK to close the

Properties dialog box and return to the editing area.

NOTE

Click the

Statistic page''s

Update button to force Writer to perform an update of the statistics before you fully rely on the numbers.

7.

Save the Document

After you have edited the text in the documentand periodically while you are editingyou should save your changes to the hard disk. To save the document, choose

File, Save or click the

Save icon in the

Standard toolbar (the third icon from the left). Writer saves the current version of the file, overwriting the previous version of the file.