NeoWriter

From NeoWiki

NeoOffice Writer is a powerful opensource word processor able to handle everything from simple school reports to the more complicated needs of businesses. With its built-in Microsoft Office filters, NeoWriter can open, edit, and save your Word documents.

Writer is integrated into NeoOffice. This allows easy incorporation of spreadsheets from NeoCalc or drawings from NeoDraw in your NeoWriter documents.

As with the other components of NeoOffice, Writer supports writing in a wide range of languages and scripts, including support for right-to-left writing direction and other complex text layout systems.

The wiki includes a NeoOffice Feature Comparison with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org and a list of supported file formats.

Tips and Hints in the Wiki

Note that additional tips can be found on the New Articles Needed page, which contains links to stub pages and/or threads in trinity that need to be developed into full blown articles.

• Performing calculations in a table within a text document
• Using AutoTexts
• Creating a Table of Contents
• Using a Master Document
• Importing a Calc Sheet into a Writer Table
• Creating a Table of Contents
• How to Add Page Numbers
• References in NeoOffice Writer
• References in a Master Document
• Creating an Index
• Inserting a Chart from NeoOffice Calc
• Displaying and editing several pages in a same window
• Using Fields Without Data Sources

External Writer Tips

Writing Vertical Text
Creating Forms in Open Office

Discusses creating XML forms for data entry.

Skip the input fields -- Make life easier with the Writer XML Forms

An article/tutorial by Solveig Haugland

Documentation and User Guides

Chapter 3 of the NeoOffice User Guide
OOo Authors Writer Guide