
The Styles menu options allow you to set the most common paragraph and character styles. You can format Paragraphs by clicking on Paragraphs. You can format text by clicking on Text or Character. Here are the main options for the Formatting menu: No need to change anything as all of the settings are ideal. This will bring up a confirmation screen. To compress the image, just right click on it and click on Compress. The Insert menu options allow us to insert all kinds of objectsĬlick on Image to insert an image. The View menu options not only allow us to hide functions but also to add or hide a bunch of different toolbars (each of which can be customized) The Edit menu options include Select All and a few other lesser used functions. Here is what the Writer menu looks like after we have also hidden many rarely used functions from the Formatting Toolbar:Ī key feature of LO Writer is the ability to easily create custom templates and assign one of them as your default template. Then click OK to see the new simplified Standard Toolbar. For the Standard menu, uncheck features that are better reached in the main menu, such as PDF, Print, Print Preview, Clone, Find and Replace, Formatting Marks, Chart, Page Break, Field, Symbol, Footnote, Endnote, Bookmark, Cross Reference, Comment, Track Changes, Line and Basic Shapes. Then click on Tools, Customize and click on the Toolbars tab. For example, because you probably will not need these functions, go to the View menu options and uncheck the Ruler, the Status Bar and the Side Menu. Thankfully, we can greatly simplify this interface by hiding a lot of the functions we may never use. LO Writer like MS Word comes with a very complex interface. Then click on Writer document to open a new blank Writer document. You should now see a LibreOffice icon on your Desktop. Then close the file manager and the web browser. Once the program has downloaded, left click on it to select it and right click on it to install it. Then select the operating system you are using (such as Windows 64-bit).

Just go to the LibreOffice download page: And it can be added for free to any Windows or Apple computer.


LibreOffice Writer comes included with any Linux computer.
