Intro to LibreOffice

This is a 3 session course: attend all or some. Registration is not required.

Tuesdays -  February 11, 18, 25

9:00 AM  -  10:30 AM

Facilitated by Terry Flanagan and Mike Kearns

The class is hands-on for those who bring their laptop. Two PC and 2 MAC laptops can be checked out from the club monitor for use during the class.

LibreOffice is a free open source software package that includes the common office suite applications. For the most part the files are interchangeable with Microsoft Office. It runs on Windows, MAC and Linux operating systems.

If you need to install LibreOffice on your laptop come to class one half hour early at 8:30 for assistance.

LibreOffice Syllabus

Class 1: FEB 11 - Introduction

A. Club website

1. overview

2. online tutorials

3. class documents – LibreOffice reference materials

B. LibreOffice defaults, options and extensions

C. Writer

1. display, menu & toolbars

2. basic formatting

Class 2: FEB 18 -  Writer

A. envelopes

B. labels

C. business cards

D. tables

E. greeting cards

F. export to PDF

Class 3: FEB 25 - Calc

A. basic operations

B. tables

C. formatting

D. printing

E. general Q & A