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=== Text editing ===

=== Text editing ===

Text is a familiar resource format, the most common resource with a teacher, is the 'text book'. You will learn to use a text editor application to create digital text  resources and combine text with other formats.  You will use the FOSS Office Suite application called ''LibreOffice'' ''Writer (''LibreOffice Writer) to create a text document. Open LibreOffice Writer on your computer, through Applications → Office – [http://libreoffice.org/ LibreOffice Writer]. In Android Mobiles you can view text documents through "OpenDocumentReader" App or WPS Office App

Text is a familiar resource format, the most common resource with a teacher, is the 'text book'. You will learn to use a text editor application to create digital text  resources and combine text with other formats.  You will use the FOSS Office Suite application called ''LibreOffice'' ''Writer (''LibreOffice Writer) to create a text document. Open LibreOffice Writer on your computer, through Applications → Office – [http://libreoffice.org/ LibreOffice Writer]. In Android Mobiles you can view text documents through "OpenDocumentReader" App or WPS Office App.  Image 11 below shows how to open LibreOffice Writer.

[[File:COL_-_Opening_LibreOffice_Writer.png|thumb|459x459px|Opening Libreoffice Writer|left]]

[[File:COL_-_Opening_LibreOffice_Writer.png|thumb|459x459px|Image 11 - Opening Libreoffice Writer|left]]

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==== Entering and formatting text ====

==== Entering and formatting text ====

====Creating and saving a text resource ====

====Creating and saving a text resource ====

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LOI Save as.png|Save a document

LOI Save as.png|Image 12 - Save a document

File:LOW save Window.png|Save window  

File:LOW save Window.png|Image 13 - Save window  

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#Saving a file - When you start entering text into the document, save your document by using SAVE option. Documents can be saved using the FILE – SAVE option or by using short-cut key CTRL+S. Always give a meaningful file name for your documents.  To save a file with another file name, you can use the Save-as option from the File menu. See the images in the 'Creating and saving a text file' gallery

#Saving a file - When you start entering text into the document, save your document by using SAVE option. The first image (Image 12) shows you to save a file after entering text.  Documents can be saved using the FILE – SAVE option or by using short-cut key CTRL+S. Always give a meaningful file name for your documents.  To save a file with another file name, you can use the Save-as option from the File menu. See the images in the 'Creating and saving a text file' gallery

#Saving a file - After selecting file name and folder click on "SAVE".

#Saving a file - After selecting file name and folder click on "SAVE" (Image 13).

#The file will be saved with a .odt extension. ODT is the short form of Open Document Text.

#The file will be saved with a .odt extension. ODT is the short form of Open Document Text.

====LibreOffice Writer menu bar====

====LibreOffice Writer menu bar====

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File:LO_Writer_4_Menu_Bar.png|LibreOffice Writer menu bar  

File:LO_Writer_4_Menu_Bar.png|Image 14 - LibreOffice Writer menu bar  

</gallery>The LibreOffice menu bar has multiple options for file operations (including saving discussed above), editing, viewing the document, inserting images, links, tables, etc in the document and formatting and defining styles in the document.  There is also a tools option with functionalities for spell check, grammar, defining frequently used words, etc.  You can either click on the menu bar on each item or click on the symbols shown for each. The commonly used options are discussed below.

</gallery>The LibreOffice menu bar shown in the above image (Image 14) has multiple options for file operations (including saving discussed above), editing, viewing the document, inserting images, links, tables, etc in the document and formatting and defining styles in the document.  There is also a tools option with functionalities for spell check, grammar, defining frequently used words, etc.  You can either click on the menu bar on each item or click on the symbols shown for each. The commonly used options are discussed below.

====Editing and formatting text====

====Editing and formatting text====

To copy text from one place to another, or from one document to another, you can select the text, go to Edit --→ Copy and go to a different place in the document to paste it; Edit → Paste. The editing menu also has an important feature for searching selected words. You can use the Edit--> Find option for searching selected words.

To copy text from one place to another, or from one document to another, you can select the text, go to Edit --→ Copy and go to a different place in the document to paste it; Edit → Paste. The editing menu also has an important feature for searching selected words. You can use the Edit--> Find option for searching selected words.

The 'format' option is for changing the format of the text, changing the text font, text size, page format and text wrapping options. For many of these options, we can use short cut icons from formatting text tool bar, the letter “B” and “I” can be used to make the text bold and italics. You can format your text in many ways either through Format--->Text (as shown in the first image) or Format--->Character (as shown in the second image) or by changing the parameters on the tool bar. See the images in the 'Formatting options' gallery. Click on the Format menu option of LibreOffice Writer to see the options. Commonly used formatting includes selecting text to highlight it through the ‘bold’ ‘italic’ or ‘underline’ functions, are shown in the third image, changing the font colour or size and adding text highlighting.  <gallery mode="packed" heights="250px" caption="Formatting options">

The 'format' option is for changing the format of the text, changing the text font, text size, page format and text wrapping options. For many of these options, we can use short cut icons from formatting text tool bar - for example, the letter “B” and “I” can be used to make the text bold and italics. See the images in the 'Formatting options' gallery. You can format your text in many ways either through Format--->Text, as shown in the first image, (Image 15) or Format--->Character as shown in the second image (Image 16) or by changing the parameters on the tool bar.   Click on the Format menu option of LibreOffice Writer to see the options. Commonly used formatting includes selecting text to highlight it through the ‘bold’ ‘italic’ or ‘underline’ functions, are shown in the third image, changing the font colour or size and adding text highlighting.  <gallery mode="packed" heights="250px" caption="Formatting options">

File:LOWriter2.png|Formatting text using Format--->Text

File:LOWriter2.png|Formatting text using Format--->Text

File:LOWriter3.png|Formatting text using Format ---> Character

File:LOWriter3.png|Formatting text using Format ---> Character