OpenOffice / LibreOffice Tutorials

Making a Signature With a Transparent Background

This presentation shows how to create a signature with a transparent background to be used in a document. The advantage of the transparent signature is that you can place the signature between lines of text and the text still shows through. The Signature is on top of the text just like a real signature. This requires other image editing software to create the transparency. This tutorial uses the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

Create Special Effects Fonts with Fontwork

A short simple tutorial on how to do some special effects with fonts in Open Office Writer.

How to insert a Text Frame & Picture

A short simple tutorial on how to insert a picture and a text frame into a Open Office Document.

How to Create a Table of Contents

This is a demonstration on how to:

1. How to create a Table of Contents in Open Office using a built in tool to automatically build and populate a TOC with chapter titles and page numbers.

2. How to build a PDF document containing a TOC with clickable links.

How To Insert And Adjust An Image

This is a demonstration on how to:

1. Insert an image

2. Resize the image while keeping the ratio the same

3. Adjust the text wrap around the image

4. Justify the text around the image

5. How to set borders and hide them

6. Put a margin of space between the text and the image.

Creating Links

Here is a tutorial on how to create different kinds of individual links in an OpenOffice Document from internal links (Bookmarks) to Internet links (Web page and Email). Also demonstrated was how to create a PDF containing those links. During the presentation Superscript was also used.

OpenOffice Tutorial: Customize Heading

This is short video on how one can customize their heading's styles to their liking. A person once told me he didn't want to use the headings because he didn't like the way they looked. This shows how OpenOffice's headings can be modified to any font, size, or typeface.

OpenOffice Tutorial: Create an eBook With Different Page Sequences

This is a tutorial on how to setup a document with more than one sequence of page numbers. I show how to set up small roman numerals for parts of the book before the chapters. Then for the chapters I restart the numbering with a one and all numbers are standard.

OpenOffice Tutorial: Using Text Shadows

This is a short video that was created in response to a request on how text shadows can be implemented in OpenOffice.