StarWriter

Level 1 – New User (1 day)

• Welcome to StarOffice
• Overview of StarWriter features and capabilities
• Functional elements of the StarWriter screen
• Obtaining help
• Opening, closing, saving and searching for files
• Creating a new document and adding text
• Moving around a document and selecting text
• Using the ‘Navigator’
• Editing techniques, (including cut, copy, paste and undo)
• Use of character and paragraph formatting
• Modifying the page style, (including margins, tabs and indents)
• Zooming and changing the document view
• Printing techniques, (including using Page Preview)
• Exchanging data with Microsoft Word

Level 2 – Regular User (1 day)

• Creating documents based on templates
• Working with the Styles and Formatting window
• Creating and editing bullet and number lists
• Using headers and footers, (including an introduction to fields)
• Working with tables
• Using the Spell Check, Thesaurus and AutoFormat
• Mail merging techniques
• Working with graphics, (including using the ‘Gallery’, drawing tools and ‘Fontwork’)
• Using the Find and Replace to replace formats and text
• Organising long documents using the Navigator
• Using Sections to create newspaper columns, mid-page

Level 3 – Advanced User (1 day)

• Creating and managing styles
• Using Heading styles to create a contents list
• Adding calculations to tables
• Using Page Styles to mix portrait and landscape pages
• Using fields to insert document parameters, (such as filename, author and version)
• Using cross-references within a document
• Working with bookmarks
• Using hyperlinks to reference web pages and other documents, (including jumping to a bookmark)
• Tracking and managing changes using the reviewing and compare tools
• Inserting, editing and deleting comments
• Using footnotes and endnotes to add reference notes and comments
• Customising and resetting the Toolbars
• Automating tasks with 'macros', (and assigning to a toolbar)