Select Subscript and click OK The 2 now appears in subscript.

Writing in Uppercase or Lowercase

Writer has the following methods for re-formatting text in uppercase or lowercase. • To display in uppercase: Highlight the text and choose Format > Character > Font

Effects tab, and under Effects select Capitals.

• Displaying in lowercase: Highlight the text and choose Format > Character > Font

Effects tab, and under Effects select Lowercase.

• Converting to uppercase: Highlight text, then choose Format > Case/Characters >

Uppercase or right-click and make the same selection form the popup menu.

• Converting to lowercase: Highlight text, then choose Format > Case/Characters >

Lowercase or right-click and make the same selection from the popup menu. Moving Text Sections in Documents

1. Select the text that you want to move.

2. Place the mouse pointer in the selected text, then press the mouse button and keep it pressed.

3. Drag the mouse until a symbol appears next to the pointer, indicating that the selected area will be moved. In addition, a gray text cursor moves with the mouse pointer, indicating where the selection is to be inserted.

Mouse Pointer Shape Meaning

Moving Copying

To copy the text, rather than move, it, press Ctrl while performing the actions described above. As shown, the action is indicated by a plus sign next to the mouse pointer. You can

press and release the Ctrl key as often as needed  the action applies to the condition prevailing at the time you released the mouse button.

Resetting Font Attributes While Typing

You may want to apply direct formatting while you are typing text. After that you may want to reset all formatting and continue entering text in the default format. Enter the text using direct character formatting, then press the right arrow key once to revert to the default Paragraph Style. Now, continue entering text at the end of the current paragraph.

Example procedure for resetting Font Attributes

Suppose you want to type the words “bold italic”, and set the last two words to bold italic as you are typing. First type “ Enter this in “, then click on the Bold and Italic icons on the Object Bar followed by entering “bold italic”. To continue with normal setting,, simply press the right arrow key once and finish your paragraph, rather than clicking on the two icons again.

Chapters in Navigator

In long documents, you can use the Navigator to obtain an overview and change the sequence of chapters or their level in the hierarchy of chapters and sub-chapters. The only condition is that you must apply “Heading” Paragraph Styles to the chapter headings (or enter the Paragraph Styles you have chosen for your headings under Tools > Outline

Numbering).

Navigator as variable-size window or minimized

• Hold down (Ctrl) and double-click on the gray area at the edge of the Navigator, e.g. next to or below the icons.

This docks the Navigator against the side of the window, or turns it back to a variable window whose size and

position you can select for yourself by dragging and dropping with the mouse. The size and position are automatically remembered. Double-click to switch between docked and variable Navigator windows.

• Inside the Navigator, double-click on a heading to move the cursor to the relevant point in the text.

• Drag and drop to change the sequence

of chapters. You can also do this by clicking on the Promote Chapter and

Demote chapter icons. The content of

subsections is of course also moved.

• If you want to move the chapter headings without moving their contents, drag and drop while holding down the (Ctrl) key. (The Drag Mode icon only affects drag and drop behavior between Navigator and document). When using this function, switch on

Heading Levels Shown by clicking on the relevant icon in the Navigator, so that you can

see what is happening in the document.

Quick Formatting Using the Adjacent Paragraph Format

When there are two consecutive paragraphs with different paragraph formats that you would like to be formatted the same way, you can do it quickly with the following method:

a) Delete the paragraph mark between two paragraphs. b) Press Enter.

Both paragraphs now have the same format with the same Style.

Note: to see paragraph marks, enable View > Non printing Characters You can delete paragraph marks in the following two ways:

1. Go the end of the first paragraph and press the Delete (Del) key. This action merges the second paragraph into the first (known as ”deleting to the right”). To turn the text back into two paragraphs, Press the Enter key twice and the second paragraph has the same format as the first.

2. Go to the beginning of the second paragraph and press Backspace (usually above the Enter key). the second paragraph merges with the first paragraph but keeps its format (known as “deleting to the left”). Pressing Enter creates two paragraphs but both have the format of the second paragraph.

Using Sections

Sections in OpenOffice.org Writer text documents isolate blocks of text for special purposes. One example their use in Writer is in preparing complete documents using Master

documents. Another is in preparing contracts from a set of fixed codicils.

The following are the ways that sections can be incorporated in a Writer document: • Sections of text that have a different number of columns than the master text. • Sections protected from further editing.

• Sections that are only to be shown under certain circumstances or hidden. • Sections that are to be inserted into a document as files or parts of files. • Sections that can be incorporated into other text documents via DDE

A section must consist of at least one paragraph. When you select text and define it as a section, it automatically ends with a paragraph break.

You can insert another text document as a section within a text document. A section from another text document can also be inserted as a section. You may link sections, within a single document, to other locations. To insert a new paragraph immediately before or after a section, place the cursor at the very beginning or end of the section and press Alt+Enter.

Sections and Columns

• Multicolumn section: A section can contain other sections. This feature allows you, for example, to create a two-column section on a page of text, and then “create a three- column section within that section.

Multicolumn page: The page format (Format > Page > Columns), which always applies to

all pages with the current Page Style, is independent of the sections.

Multicolumn frame: You can also insert frames containing columns of text which you can

move freely around the page (from main toolbar, long-click to open Insert floating toolbar, click Insert frame icon). For these frames, for example, you can select that the text in the frame be positioned a certain distance from the edge of the frame (Choose Format > Frame

> Wrap). Inserting Sections

1. Place the cursor at the point where you want to insert a new section, or select the text that is to form a new section.

2. Choose Insert > Section. You can define other settings for the section in the dialogue.