Writer a first look

What is Writer?

Writer is the word processor component of LibreOffice. Writer application includes all the usual features of a word processor (spelling check, thesaurus, hyphenation, autocorrect, find and replace, automatic generation of tables of contents and indexes, mail merge and others).

Writer also provides important features such as:

• Templates and styles
• Page layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables
• Automated tables of contents and indexes
• Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects
• Built-in drawing tools
• Master documents, to group a collection of documents into a single document
• Change tracking during revisions
• Mail merge
• Export to PDF, including bookmarks

And many more.

Writer main Window and interface

The main Writer workspace shown in the image below contains the following parts:

• Title bar. Displays current filename and application
• Menu bar. The main application menu with access to all the command and features
• Standard toolbar. Quick access to basic commands
• Formatting toolbar. Quick access to basic formatting commands
• Sidebar. Access to properties, styles, gallery and navigator
• Status bar. General information about the current document and view control

As mentioned before LibreOffice has a consistent user interface which means that other components main windows will have similar layout and look.