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.

Contents 1 Tips and Hints in the Wiki 2 External Writer Tips 2.1 Forms 2.2 Lists and Numbering 3 Documentation and User Guides

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
• How to Add Page Numbers
• Line Numbering in a Writer Document
• References in NeoOffice Writer
• References in a Master Document
• Using a Master Document
• Creating a Table of Contents
• Creating an Index
• Importing a Calc Sheet into a Writer Table
• Inserting a Chart from NeoOffice Calc
• Displaying and editing several pages in the same window
• Using Fields Without Data Sources

External Writer Tips

Writing Vertical Text
Printing More Than One Record on One Sheet of Paper (an article by Solveig Haugland)

Forms

Creating interactive forms with OpenOfice.org Writer Creating an interactive quiz form in Writer.
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)

Lists and Numbering

Four articles by Solveig Haugland;

Using Fields Based on Jean Weber's technique

Restarting Numbering An older article; also uses fields.

OpenOffice.org Lists A good intro to using Writers lists and styles features. Part 1 of 2

Using List Styles Part 2 of 2

Documentation and User Guides

Chapter 3 of the NeoOffice User Guide
OOo Authors Writer Guide