Students taking the Sun OpenOffice.org Writer Specialist classroom course will gain the basic skills to create a wide range of standardized business documents. Using a variety of interactive demos and practice activities, the student learns how to work with documents and text, how to use formatting and styles, how to create and use templates, and how to insert tables and objects. The course also covers moderately advanced topics like using master documents, fields, and outlining to efficiently master your text processing needs. The course addresses the OpenOffice.org Specialist skill set. The OpenOffice.org Specialist course is for individuals who use the OpenOffice.org productivity software. Certification candidates must pass one of the Sun OpenOffice.org Certification exams in order to earn their Specialist Certification.

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OpenOffice Writer New Users

This course is intended for students new to Writer with the following prerequisite skills:

• Basic computer literacy
• Open, save, close and delete documents
• Understanding of document types
• Navigate file structures
• Understanding of word processing concepts such as formatting, layouts and margins, hard returns, linking, copying and pasting, tables, bullets, numbering

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the benefits of OpenOffice.org
• Use OpenOffice.org Help
• Use the Writer menus and toolbars
• Create, open and save documents
• Open and save documents with different formats
• Create, format and edit text and paragraphs
• Leverage the automatic features of Writer
• Create tables and graphics in Writer
• Use paragraph and character styles
• Leverage best practices for creating and editing Documents
• Modify the layout of a page

Module 1 - Introduction to OpenOffice.org