The document discusses various formatting and editing features in OpenOffice, including inserting hyperlinks, special characters, formatting paragraphs and styles, inserting bulleted and numbered lists, pictures, formulas, tables, and creating and updating tables of content. It also provides information on typing in Sinhala and Tamil languages and links to online tools for transliteration.

3. Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 3 Special Characters Insert > Special Character

4. Format > Paragraph… Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 4 Formatting Paragraph

5. To apply these styles & formatting, Select the text. Double click on the style. Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 5 Styles and Formatting

6. Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 6 Styles and Formatting (Cont)

7. Bulleted Lists Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 7 Bulleted and numbered lists

8. Insert -> Picture -> From a file… Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 8 Inserting Pictures

10. Insert > Objects > Formula View > selection Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 11 Inserting Formulas Selection Toolbar Equation Editor

11. Selection Window – According to the Category the symbols are changing. If the Selecting window is not appear automatically then select, View > Selection Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 12 Inserting Formulas (Cont)

12. Method 1 : Insert > Table... Method 2 : Table > Insert > Table... Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 13 Inserting tables

13. Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 14 Inserting Tables (Cont)

14. Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 15 Formatting pages

15. Steps to create table of content using the default setting s. When creating the document, use the following paragraph styles for different heading levels : Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3. Place cursor where the table of contents needs to be inserted. Insert > Indexes and Tables > Indexes and Tables. Change nothing in the dialog box & click OK. Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 16 Creating table of Content

16. If you add or delete text or you add, delete, or change headings, you need to update the table of contents. To update table of content : Place the cursor within the table of contents. Right-click > Update Index/Table from the pop-up menu. Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 17 Updating table of content

17. OpenOffice.org can export documents to PDF (Portable Document Format) Department of Statistics & Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Peradeniya. 18 Exporting to PDF

18. SINHALA & TAMIL TYPING

20. SinGlish (Phonetic) transliterated --> Sinhala Unicode

21. TanGlish (Phonetic) transliterated --> Tamil Unicode Singreesisinhalaunicode software http://singreesi.vndv.com Sinhala and Tamil Unicode systems

22. http://www.azhagi.com/ Auto Transliterator: To transliterate existing English to Tamil. (copy and paste the text in the ETA (English text area. i.e. the upper text area) of azhagi and the corresponding Tamil will appear in the bottom screen. Reverse Transliterator : To convert any Tamil Text back to its exact English phonetic equivalent. Dual Screen Transliterator : 'Direct Tamil input in all Windows applications (http://www.azhagi.com/dst.html) Sinhala & Tamil Unicode Systems (Cont)