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With the news of more countries and monkey-palities dropping MS Office (eg. https://www.heise.de/en/news/From-Word-and-Excel-to-LibreOffice-Danish-ministry-says-goodbye-to-Microsoft-10438942.html) I thought it may be a good opportunity to do some things in LibreOffice. I was chatting with one of my friends who still uses Windows; what do they do in Office? I found a very interesting trend in perception between male and female friends regarding MS Office and other office packages, and maybe we can discuss that in a later issue. Of my smarter friends and acquaintances, I got replies of; you cannot do x or y, but when I asked if they had ever done the “x” or the “y”, or even knew anyone who did x or y, the response was negative. To me, this means that they were influenced by something that they read, rather than really “knowing”. Looking at my list of things people say they do, I’ll create this series of articles around that. We can start with the basics and work our way up. We will start with the one I use most and I suspect everyone else uses the most, Writer. We can start with something visual. Making your paragraphs look snazzy. When you see old manuscripts, they have that large capital letter that starts off the text: (https://abcdefridays.blogspot.com/2014/09/drop-caps.html)
In LibreOffice, it is called drop caps, and you can find it in: Format > Paragraph, and it should be the sixth tab, with a check-box “Display drop caps” (see image bottom). Here is an example using my current paragraph: I have it set to one character for the demo, but you can also use more, to highlight the whole first word, if you would like. If you pair this up with a snazzy font, the results can be quite pleasing! However, there are many ways to skin a cat, and a quicker way would be to highlight the paragraph you want to target, then using the right-click to display the context menu, and then mouse-over the word “paragraph >” to display the word “paragraph …”, and click on that. And that is it, for our first LibreOffice short. If you would like more, let us know; if you think this is a waste of time, also let us know so we don’t use space in the magazine that could be used for something else. misc@fullcirclemagazine.org