Students taking the Sun OpenOffice.org Writer Specialist eLearning course learn how to work with documents, text formatting and styles, creating and using templates, and inserting tables and objects all in a self-paced online environment. The online course also covers moderately advanced topics like using master documents, fields, and outlining to efficiently master your text processing needs. Hands-on exercises also help ensure you have the skills you need to be productive with OpenOffice.org.<star:content xmlns:star="http://schemas.sun.com/star-ns/">The Sun Certified OpenOffice.org Writer Specialist certification exam provides an ideal entry into using the Writer component of the OpenOffice.org 3.1 Office Productivity Suite effectively. This worldwide credential validates basic and moderately advanced knowledge of text processing functionality. Candidates for this exam include: entry level Office users, users migrating from other Office productivity suites, and professionals using moderately advanced Office productivity features.This certification validates your skills in:
- Demonstrate basic functions of OpenOffice.org Writer
- Customize text documents
- Enhance text documents
- Demonstrate how to work with objects
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Who Can Benefit
OpenOffice Writer New Users
Prerequisites
This course is intended for students new to Writer with the following prerequisite skills:
- Basic computer literacy
- Open, save, close and delete documents
- Understanding of document types
- Navigate file structures
- Understanding of word processing concepts such as formatting, layouts and margins, hard returns, linking, copying and pasting, tables, bullets, numbering
Skills Gained
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the benefits of OpenOffice.org
- Use OpenOffice.org Help
- Use the Writer menus and toolbars
- Create, open and save documents
- Open and save documents with different formats
- Create, format and edit text and paragraphs
- Leverage the automatic features of Writer
- Create tables and graphics in Writer
- Use paragraph and character styles
- Leverage best practices for creating and editing Documents
- Modify the layout of a page
Course Content
Module 1 - Introduction to OpenOffice.org Module 2 - Creating, Opening, Saving, and Viewing Documents Module 3 - Working with Text Module 4 - Formatting Text Module 5 - Working and Formatting Paragraphs Module 6 - Applying Styles Module 7 - Working with Tables Module 8 - Working with Pictures Module 9 - Working with Documents