General+Formatting

=NeoOffice  General Formatting=

**Entering New Text**
Create a new document (**NeoOffice - Text Document**) or open an existing document (**File – Open** or icon on the Standard Toolbar).

Type your text, using the return key only at the end of the paragraph.


 * Automatic Correction** can make certain corrections that are in the auto-correction tool (common misspelled words). To see a list of words, click on **Tools – AutoCorrect – Replace**. Any automatic correction can be reversed by pressing Cmd-Z immediately after it occurred.


 * Automatic Word Completion** tool will suggest words as you are typing (long words, usually 10 letters). If you want the word, press the return key, if not, continue typing your text. To see a list of words click on **Tools – AutoCorrect - Word Completion**. To turn off the word completion, click on **Tools - AutoCorrect - Word Completion**, then click on **Enable word completion** to clear it.

Deleting Text

 * Delete One Character at a time**

To delete one character to the left of the cursor, press the delete key. To delete one character to the right of the cursor, press the ctrl (control) key and the delete key.


 * Deleting More than One Character at a time**

Select the text you want to delete by highlighting it with the mouse, then press the Delete key.

To delete text that is not next to each other, press the **cmd key ( ⌘ )** and while holding it, click the mouse to set the cursor at the beginning of the text to delete. Press and hold the mouse and drag the pointer to the last character you want to delete. Release the cmd key and the mouse.

Direct Formatting
Direct formatting applies attributes (i.e., bold underline, etc.) to selected areas of text.

Applying Fonts
When creating a text document for the first time, you can use the default settings for Styles, Fonts and Text Size, then create your document. You can make formatting changes as you are typing your document to selected text or to your whole document. You can also change formatting for specific selection(s) or your entire document after you have completed your document.



To make changes before you start typing, click on Default for headings or text styles, font (i.e., Times New Roman) or size (i.e., 12) to make changes to your text.

Emphasizing Text

 * Bolding, italicizing or underlining** can be accomplished in a number of ways:

Click on one or all of the icons in the Formatting toolbar to turn on the feature(s) you want, then type your text. When you are done emphasizing your text, click on the icon(s) again to turn off the feature(s) or press the right arrow key once to end the selected formatting, then continue typing.

If your text is already entered, simply highlight the text with your mouse, then click the icon(s) in the Formatting toolbar.

You can also change the text color, add highlighting or add a background fill color to your text as well. Click the down arrow and a floating toolbar provides a range of colors to choose from. The font color changes the color of your text, highlighting applies the current color to the background of your selection and the last option will change the background color of a paragraph.



Displaying/Editing Hyperlinks
Once you have typed in a hyperlink (i.e., internet address), the link is underlined and changed to blue. To access the link, simply click on it and your internet browser will open to the link. To edit the link, click on HYP on the status bar on the bottom of your page. It will change to SEL. This will allow you to edit it just like normal text.



Uppercase/Lowercase
NeoOffice Writer can convert UPPERCASE to lowercase and lowercase to UPPERCASE. Select the text you want to convert, then right-click (ctrl – click from keyboard) and select Case/Characters from the popup menu. Choose which option you want by clicking on it.

Setting Tabs
Tab stops are shown in the horizontal ruler at the top of your document page. By default, tabs are set every .49 inches. Before making a change to your tab stops, think about whether the change will be for all documents, all paragraphs within your document, or one or more paragraphs.

To change the default for all documents, select **Tools – Options – NeoOffice Writer – General** and use the Tab stops scroll bar to make your selection.

To change tab stops just for your current document (all paragraphs within that document), right-click any paragraph and select **Edit Paragraph Style**, then click **Tabs** and make your changes.

If you only need to change tabs to a specific paragraph within a document, select the paragraph, then click on the ruler where you want the tab to be. If you want something other than a left tab, click the icon on the left side of the ruler bar until you find the type of tab you want (see table below).





Alternately, from the menu bar, you can click on **Format – Paragraph – Tabs** and make your changes there as well.

Making Changes to Tabs
If you placed a tab where you did not want it, simply click and hold your mouse pointer on that tab in the ruler and drag it off.

If you want to change to type of tab you created, single click the tab in the ruler, then right-click on it and choose the type you want.

Setting Margins and Indents
Use the icons in the ruler bar (for left margin and for right margin) to make changes to your margins. Place your mouse cursor over the left margin icon until the pointer becomes a crosshair, then click and drag it to where you want your left margin to be. Do the same for the right margin.

You can also set the margins using **Format – Page – Page** and, using the scroll bars, make your changes to the margin(s).