Faq/Writer/en

Editing

 * How do I insert dummy text in Writer?
 * How do I correct a hyperlink? (if I click the text, the link is active)?
 * How do I modify the link of an external picture?
 * How do I move a paragraph using the keyboard?
 * How do I do a multiple selection of text?
 * How do I select a whole line?
 * How do I select several pictures?
 * How do I select an object in the background?
 * doesn’t work when the document start with a table.
 * How do I insert a special character?
 * How do I insert the trademark symbol?
 * How do I insert a sound file or a video in a text?
 * How do I insert a non-breaking hyphen when the process indicated in the help doesn’t seem to work?
 * How do I insert a variable to enter information in the document?
 * How do I insert a user field to enter information in the document?
 * How do I add an accent on a capital char?
 * Shortcut keys
 * How to rotate a picture?
 * How do I draw a contiguous legend?
 * What are those yellow/brown-coloured texts with underlines and strikeouts in my document, accompanied by vertical lined on margins? And how do I get rid of those?

Search and Replace

 * Why does the Edit menu contain two search tools?
 * How do I eliminate the numerous line breaks that appear in my text once I have pasted it in my document (for example a text from an email)?
 * What are the codes used to Search and Replace using regular expressions?
 * How do I find special characters inside a document?

Layout

 * How do I insert a landscape formatted page in a document where other pages are portrait formatted?
 * How do I delete the pages that seem empty?
 * How do I add a logo at the top of all the pages of my document?
 * How do I create a header only on the first page of my document?
 * How do I insert the current date on the footer of my document?
 * How do I automatically update the headers and footers of my document when I modify a template?
 * How to enlarge the area reserved to footer notes?
 * How do I make the text continue from one area to another?
 * What are relationships between different elements (margins/borders/paddings etc.) of a page?
 * Anchoring and positioning graphic elements (pictures, objects)

Formatting

 * How do I create an hanging indent in my document?
 * How do I vertically center text in a page?
 * How to reproduce the layout with a tool similar to the MS Word one?
 * How do I write the first letters of a word with capitals and the rest of the word in lower case?
 * How do I revert the character formatting to the default while entering text?
 * How do I format just part of a page with columns?
 * How to format URLs (Uniform Resource Locators : http://...) in the same way as the rest of the document?
 * How to make a series of indivisible characters?
 * How to adapt the presentation of the text depending on the outline?
 * How to create and insert watermarked text?

Managing styles

 * How do I modify the style/format of a title?
 * How to change default fonts for styles?

Opening / Saving / Import / Export

 * Is it possible to open WordPro (.lwp) documents into Writer?
 * How to use the export feature (.txt) with Media Wiki syntax?
 * How to remove the Read only attribute?
 * What is a hybrid PDF file?
 * When I import a Word document it keeps its former filename

Auto-correction / Auto-format

 * These automatics annoy me!
 * How to stop automatic word completion while entering text?
 * How to remove the double black line generated while entering several #?
 * When I enter text in lower case, LibreOffice changes the first letter to a capital.
 * When I use asterisks [asterisk = *], LibreOffice removes them and replaces them by bold text.
 * When I click in a table or in text containing bullets, a toolbar appears and is annoying me.
 * How to force URL detection in URLs pasted from the Web?
 * How to create a permanent list of automatic insertions?

Index / Table of Contents / Alphabetical Index / Bibliography

 * How do I insert a table of contents into my document?
 * How do I update a table of contents?
 * How do I add an alphabetical index to my document?
 * How do I take the new occurrences into account in an alphabetical index?
 * How to manage citations in a bibliography?
 * How do I add an Appendix Table in addition to main Table of Contents?
 * How do I make the page numbers in the table of contents match those in the body of the document?
 * Why do the titles of the chapters not appear in the table of contents or the Navigator while I use  styles?
 * How do I display a table of contents where the levels of title display only their own numbering and not the one from the higher level?
 * How do I suppress page numbers in the table of contents?
 * How do I get Roman numerals in the table of contents?
 * How do I remove numbering for « Introduction » and « Conclusion » titles while they still appear in the table of contents?
 * What must I do to make some titles (« Introduction », « Conclusion », « Resume ») appear in the table without the page number?
 * How do I remove the table of contents title?
 * How do I make the title of the table of contents look like the Header1 titles?
 * How do I insert lines into the table of contents?
 * How do I suppress a line break inserted before a table of contents (at the beginning of a document or a section)?

Page Numbering

 * How to insert a page number having the form of "Page 1 of n"?
 * How to make the page numbering begin at the second page of the document?
 * How to begin the page numbering of a document at a value greater than 1?
 * How to make the page numbering of the table of content match the page numbering in the document?
 * My document begins with a title page and a home page. How do I make the total number of pages match only the written pages?
 * How to have page numbers in Roman numerals in the table of contents?

Tables

 * How to merge two tables?
 * How to repeat a table header line on all the pages of a document where the table appears?
 * How to create a table in a Writer document?
 * How to create a table that is not followed by a paragraph?
 * How to add/delete a column without changing the size of the other columns?
 * How to update tables based on a DDE link?
 * How to copy and paste a formula without the result?

Printing

 * How to print bar codes?
 * My printer driver doesn't allow me to print several pages per sheet. How can I do it with Writer?
 * When I print envelopes with a mail merge, I have an "envelope" page and a blank page. How do I remove the blank page?
 * How to avoid printing some objects?

Labels / Mailing

 * How to create labels with LibreOffice?
 * How to use a Calc file as a data source for a mailing list?
 * When I print envelopes with a mail merge, I have a page “envelope” and a blank page. How do I remove the blank page?
 * How to send a bulk mailing by e-mail?
 * Details on conditional fields in mailings.
 * How to center vertically and horizontally label fields in their frame?
 * How to restore the display of the field name?
 * How to customize each document in a mail merge?
 * Why are some records ignored?

Charts

 * How to create a diagram, a graphic?
 * How to integrate a chart from a spreadsheet?
 * How to integrate a chart linked to a spreadsheet?

Miscellaneous

 * How to enable revision marks (underlined with color) in LibreOffice?
 * How to compare two versions of a document?
 * How do I protect (block) part of my document so that it can not be modified?
 * How to count the number of words in a document?
 * How do I display my pages as thumbnails when I write a document?
 * How to use an AutoText whose shortcut contains a dot (.)?
 * How to use the fields under the Private tab of the Business Cards dialog box in ?
 * doesn’t work when the document begins with a table.
 * How to attach a shortcut to a special character?
 * I’m on Linux, and my default page size doesn’t follow my locale setting. Why?

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