<p class="Paragraph">This section contains all you need to know about the comprehensive functionality of the OpenOffice.org Writer module.</p>
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<p class="Head2">OpenOffice.org Writer has so much to offer!</p>
<p class="Head3">Writing</p>
<p class="Paragraph">OpenOffice.org Writer helps you to create all sorts of written documents. You can produce personal letters, form letters, brochures, faxes, and even professional manuals. Documents that you use over and over can be saved as templates, for example, an invoice form. The spelling and thesaurus functions can aid you with this. If you want, you can have the AutoCorrect and hyphenation functions active as you type.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">There is no restriction to the length of a text document in OpenOffice.org. You can use the Navigator to move around easily and quickly within the document.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">OpenOffice.org Writer comes with templates for almost every purpose. You can also create your own using the AutoPilot.</p>
<p class="Head3">HTML Integration</p>
<p class="Paragraph">OpenOffice.org allows you to open HTML pages and save your work (e.g. text) in HTML format.</p>
<p class="Head3">Designing and Structuring</p>
<p class="Paragraph">OpenOffice.org offers a wide variety of options to design documents. Use the <help:link Id="67624" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Stylist</help:link> to create, assign and modify styles for paragraphs, individual characters, frames and pages. In addition, the <help:link Id="67623" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Navigator</help:link> can help you create structured texts and also allows you to modify the structure, for instance, by shifting paragraphs from one position to another.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">By clicking icons or using shortcuts you can execute numerous commands without having to open a single menu.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Additionally, you can create various tables of contents and other <help:link Id="67684" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">indexes</help:link> in text documents. You can define the structure and appearance of the indexes according to your own individual needs.</p>
<p class="Head3">Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org Writer</p>
<p class="Paragraph">OpenOffice.org Writer contains numerous functions to assist you in creating perfectly styled documents. Text can be formatted into multicolumns, and have frames, graphics, tables, etc. inserted into it. The text frames can be positioned anywhere you wish, even across page limits so that a newspaper format can be realized. Functions such as making lines register-true, flow of contours through and around graphics and defining of characters, paragraphs and tables in any color complement your tools to make your documents very professional.</p>
<p class="Head3">Calculations</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Text documents in OpenOffice.org have an integrated <help:link Id="67582" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">calculation function</help:link> that helps you execute complicated calculations with elements such as sine and cosine or logical operators. You can easily create a table in a text document in order to perform calculations and display the results in a structured format.</p>
<p class="Head3">Creating Drawings</p>
<p class="Paragraph">A wide array of <help:link Id="66034" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">draw tools</help:link> aid you in creating drawings in text documents. You can also use the draw tools to insert a text box, and name graphics and other objects.</p>
<p class="Head3">Inserting Graphics</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can insert pictures with <help:link Id="65614" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">different formats</help:link> into a text document, including graphics with a JPG or GIF format. The most common formats can be edited directly in a text document with the image editor. In addition, the <help:link Id="66207" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Gallery</help:link> provides a collection of clipart graphics organized by theme.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The program interface is designed so that each user can configure it according to individual preferences. The various windows (Stylist, Navigator, etc.) can be positioned as floating windows anywhere on the screen or docked to an edge. Icons and menus can be customized as well.</p>
<p class="Head3">Drag&Drop</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The drag-and-drop feature enables you to work even more quickly and efficiently with text documents in OpenOffice.org. For instance, you can drag graphics directly from the Gallery into an active document.</p>
<p class="Head3">Extensive Help Functions</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The program provides extensive Help functions.</p>
