Open Office tutorial ~ write your ebook in Open Office

This Open Office tutorial is at the beginner/intermediate level. How to do basic formatting, create a TOC, bookmarks, insert images etc.

Open Office is the open source equivalent of Microsoft Word. There are some things it doesn't do quite as well as Word, and some things it does better. But overall, it stacks up pretty well against it's competitor.

One advantage that it does have, is the inbuilt PDF creator. You don't need to purchase a seperate PDF creator or look for a good free one, it's all right there, and it works well.

Basic Open Office Tutorial List

select or create a document template
adding a copyright, page#, header and footer
using headings correctly
create and update a Table Of Contents
inserting images

Select or create a document template

Go to File/New/Template and Documents

This will open a new window, where you can browse to the templates that you have available. Open Office comes with a few default templates, but you can download more from the Open Office Template Repository

The default save location for templates that you download or create, should be C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\template (where C is you main drive)

Filepath given is for a typical Windows pc.