This tutorial will help you create PDF documents on Ubuntu computer with default applications. You can do so using LibreOffice (full set consisted of Writer, Calc and Impress) and Firefox. You can do this quickly without adding any new application. Now let's try it out! 

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This tutorial will help you enrich your LibreOffice Writer by making use of the existing, thousands of Microsoft Word's templates on the internet. Thanks to LibreOffice compatibility features, this is possible. With this, you can quickly make academic papers, brochures, business letters, newsletters, resumes/CV and many more. Let's try now! 

(A Word template from Hloom.com opened in Writer)

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This tutorial will help you in setting up F4 or Folio paper size in LibreOffice Writer in step by step with examples and pictures. This includes making templates so you can quickly make F4 documents without repeating paper size setup and further make PDF for easy printing. Now let's try it out.

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This tutorial will help you to create mail merge with LibreOffice explained step by step with pictures and examples. Mail merge is a method of making stuffs consisted of multiple personalized copies like official letters, invitations, envelops, identity cards, student score reports etc. using word processor, spreadsheet and database. Finally, in this exercise we will make school letters for students' parents as an example so you can practice and then adapt it to your own needs. Let's study now!

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Page Styles are page designs. It is similar concept to Headings and Paragraph Styles but applied to pages instead. With them, you can make different page numbering in one document such as Roman first and Arabic later just like in academic writings. Alternatively, you can also make a document with different page orientations and/or margins as you wish. You can either use existing or create new ones of them. However, the secret of success in using Page Styles is a thing called Manual Break. This tutorial explains step by step to use them with examples. Enjoy writing!

Advantage of word processor in computing compared to typewriter machine in real life is that user can find a word far more quicker in a long text document. User can find anything by just one touch and find further by touching once again. Not only that, the most excellent advantage is that the word found can be replaced in entire document as user wishes. In LibreOffice Writer, these two advantages are available in Find & Replace feature (shortcut: Ctrl+H). You can find a word, a phrase, a sentence, even a pattern of text matched you wish. Later, you have two more options, first as words found all selected you can reformat them, and second you can replace them. This article will help you practice that with Writer. Happy learning!

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Paragraph Style is paragraph design with a certain name. This is about how text looks around another text in same document. As you have learned from previous article, Headings in turn are actually Paragraph Styles for titles. With Paragraph Styles, you can make for example a small story book with a group of text which is normal surrounding another group of quotation text with different look, named NormalText and QuotesText respectively. To write your book, you just need to write whole text without formatting as plain text. To finish it, select some text to apply NormalText Style and select another to apply QuotesText Style. That's it! This way you save your time to do repetitive formatting as you have already designed their Paragraph Styles. For most cases, you even do not need to create a custom one as LibreOffice Writer already prepared many you can choose. You can also modify Paragraph Styles available if you wish.In this article we will learn how to use Paragraph Styles with examples. Happy writing!

(Writer text document with several different Paragraph Styles applied)

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After learning about LibreOffice Writer's user interface and basic text formatting, we will learn about Views and Document Navigation so we can see better and moving around text more quickly. You will learn about two views, Normal and Web, and also three paging modes, Single-Multiple-Book. You will also learn about how to use zoom features and Navigator dialog. Lastly, you will learn to hide and show several important stuffs such as Rulers, Grid, and Pictures which in turn can help you reduce computer memory usage. Happy learning!

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Table is an item of rows and columns. In Writer, you can create table in any size, control its horizontal & vertical lines, merge & split cells, even apply a color theme for it, and finally to automatically sort out table contents as you wish. You will learn by examples once again in this tutorial. Happy learning!

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This tutorial explains the ways to insert pictures into document in LibreOffice Writer. This is a preparation for you to work with multiple photos, graphics, logos, etc. You will learn how to do it manually and automatically, with menubar, copy-paste, and drag-and-drop, including to resize & arrange them within text, and finally to crop them. I also include download links to beautiful pictures like above and I hope with this article you can compose good documents. Happy learning!

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This tutorial explains the basic text works in LibreOffice Writer. You will learn basically how to type, select, delete, copy & paste, undo & redo, bold-italic-underline, color & highlight, bullets & numberings, use of headings, align left-center-right, and finally making columns. Happy learning!

 

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In this article, you will learn the basics of LibreOffice Writer which are how to create, save, and open document & understand what formats are supported. You will learn the menubar, dialog window, and options available for that. You will find Writer useful because it supports both Open's and Microsoft's formats which are ODT and DOCX along with others like PDF, EPUB, RTF, and HTML. By learning this article, you will be able to create any document with any format on Writer. Happy learning!

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This tutorial explains briefly how we work with LibreOffice Writer's user interface. This includes its Menubar, Toolbar, Sidebar, Statusbar, and Window in general, particularly frequently used buttons. The goal is for us to familiarize the most important features first in Writer. This article is intended for beginning LibreOffice users even if they are also new in computing. Happy learning!

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Just like on Scribus, we an also insert Lorem Ipsum dummy text on LibreOffice Writer. Simply go to menu bar Tools > AutoText (Ctrl+F3) > Standard > Lorem Ipsum > Insert. Done! This is on LibreOffice  5.1 on GNU/Linux; you may find the menu differs on other version. We don't need any extension to do this. Happy writing!