• Click on T Icon to create a text box and type any amount of text which can be moved anywhere into the document. . . Inserting Page Break OpenOffice Writer inserts a page break automatically when the content exceeds a page, this is known as soft page break.
Sometimes the user need to insert a page break manually, it is called as hard page break. . Place the insertion pointer in the document where the page break is to be inserted. .
Select Insert → Manual Break, the Insert break dialog box appears as shown below in Figure . . Figure . Insert Break dialog box .
Under the type option choose Page break and click OK button . . A page break is inserted at the current location. .
. Inserting Word Art WordArt is a feature in OpenOffice Writer which includes effects such as shadows, outlines, colors, gradients, and 3D effects that can be added to a word or phrase to make it more presentable and attractive. To insert WordArt , the steps to be followed are : • Click the Fontwork icon on the Drawing toolbar. • Fontwork gallery window with various font work is displayed as in Figure .
. • Double-click on the required Font work style, and type the required word or phrase and click OK button. Figure .18WordArt Dialog Box . .
Inserting Auto Text AutoText allows the user to assign text, tables, graphics and other items to a key or key combination. For example, rather than typing "TamilNadu" every time you use that phrase, you might just type "tn" and press F3.You can also save a formatted Tip as AutoText and then insert a copy by typing "tip" and pressing F3. To assign AutoText shortcut to some text, the steps are as follows: . Select the text for which shortcut is to be created.
So that it is highlighted. . Select Edit → AutoText (or press Ctrl+F3 ). .
In the Name textbox, type the shortcut. Writer will automatically show one letter shortcut in the Shortcut textbox. . Click the of the AutoText button on