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| *For all your documents* |
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| **Writer** has everything you would expect from a modern, fully equipped word |
| processor or desktop publisher. |
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| It's simple enough for a quick memo, powerful enough to create complete books |
| with contents, diagrams, indexes, etc. You're free to concentrate on your |
| message - while **Writer** makes it look great. |
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| The *Wizards* takes all the hassle out of producing standard documents such as |
| letters, faxes, agendas, minutes, or carrying out more complex tasks such as |
| mail merges. You are of course free to create your own templates, or |
| [download templates][1] from our Extensions repository. |
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| *Styles and Formatting* puts the power of style sheets into the hands of every |
| user. |
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| Trap typing mistakes on the fly with the *AutoCorrect dictionary*, which can |
| check your spelling as you type. If you need to use different languages in your |
| document - **Writer** can handle that too. |
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| Reduce typing effort with *AutoComplete*, which suggests 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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| 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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| **Writer** can also display multiple pages while you edit - ideal for complex |
| documents, or if you have a large monitor (or multiple monitors). |
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| The advanced notes feature displays notes 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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| 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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| 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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| **Writer** can of course read all your old Microsoft Word documents, or save |
| your work in Microsoft Word format for sending to people who are still locked |
| into Microsoft products. From version 3.0 **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" |