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| *Letting you concentrate on writing your ideas* |
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| **Writer** has everything you would expect from a modern, fully equipped word |
| processor. |
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| It is simple enough for a quick memo, yet powerful enough to create complete books |
| with contents, diagrams, indexes, etc. You're free to concentrate on your |
| ideas while Writer makes them look great. |
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| *Wizards* take all the hassle out of producing standard documents such as |
| letters, faxes, agendas, minutes, or carrying out more complex tasks such as |
| mail merges. Of course, you are also free to create your own templates, or |
| [download templates][1] from our Templates repository. |
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| *Styles and Formatting* puts the power of style sheets into the hands of every |
| user. |
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| *AutoCorrect dictionary* can trap typing mistakes on the fly, |
| checking your spelling as you type. Writer can handle the use of different languages in your |
| document too. |
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| *AutoComplete* reduces typing effort, it will suggest common words and |
| phrases to complete what you are typing. |
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| *Text frames* and *linking* give you the power to tackle desktop publishing |
| tasks for newsletters, flyers, etc. laid out exactly the way you want them to |
| be. |
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| *Table of Contents & References* - Increase the usefulness of your long, complex documents |
| by generating a table of contents or indexing terms, bibliographical references, illustrations, |
| tables, and other objects. |
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| *Multi-page display* - Writer can also display multiple pages while you edit - ideal for complex |
| documents. Works well with large and multiple monitors. |
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| *Notes* - The notes feature displays notes and comments on the side of the document. This |
| makes notes a lot easier to read. In addition, notes from different users are |
| displayed in different colors together with the editing date and time. |
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| *HTML, PDF, MediaWiki formats* - Make your documents freely available with Writer's HTML export to the web, |
| or export in MediaWiki format for publishing to wikis. Publish in Portable |
| Document Format (.pdf) to guarantee that what you write is what your reader |
| sees. The PDF export feature in Apache OpenOffice provides a huge set of formatting |
| and security options; so that PDF files can be customized for many different |
| scenarios, including ISO standard PDF/A files. |
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| *.odt Standard* - Save your documents in OpenDocument format, the new international standard for |
| office documents. This XML based format means you're not tied in to Writer. |
| You can access your documents from any OpenDocument compliant software. |
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| *.docx & .doc support* - Writer can of course read all your older Microsoft Word documents, or save |
| your work in Microsoft Word format for sending to people who are still using |
| Microsoft products. Writer can also open .docx files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X. |
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| [1]: http://templates.openoffice.org "Download Apache OpenOffice Templates" |
