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Richard Detwiler wrote:
Barbara Duprey wrote:
Nate Jen SMITH wrote:
I had another gentleman email and say that it could do it but it
doesn't have the layout tools like Publisher (microsoft office) has.
But I'm going to go ahead and give it a try. Thank you!
God Bless,
Jennifer
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Subject: Re: [users] newsletters
Nate Jen SMITH wrote:
> Does Openoffice have a tool for making newsletters?
> Yes, the word processor, called "Writer" can do that. Do
you have any specific requirements you're looking for?
The help topics most likely to be of interest to you for a newsletter
deal with page formats, sections, and frames. Among them, they give
you a great deal of control over what goes where in the output. You
may also be interested in Fontwork, and in the Draw application
within OOo, for more graphics capabilities. Good luck, and come back
to the list with questions any time!
Jennifer,
For what it's worth, I'm the editor of a newsletter for our local
orienteering club. I've been using OpenOffice Writer for the
newsletter, for something like 4 years now, and find that it meets my
needs very well. The page layout of our newsletter is not extremely
simple, so it can handle things beyond real basic stuff.
I have to say, though, that I have no experience with a page-layout
application like Publisher or Scribus. So I can't say whether Writer
is the best tool for the job I'm doing or not -- only that it works,
and I'm familiar with Writer so I don't need to learn something
totally new. I did make a (somewhat feeble) attempt to learn Scribus,
but didn't meet with any immediate success and didn't persevere,
deciding to stick to Writer.
The Help topics that Barbara mentions are all very good ones. I use
all of those in doing the page layout for the newsletter that I do. I
would add to that list: styles (page styles and paragraph styles, in
particular). I use those extensively.
For what I do, I haven't used Fontwork nor the Draw application that
Barbara mentioned; not to say these wouldn't be useful to you, just
that I haven't needed them.
If you have any specific questions, please don't hesitate to reply
back to the list (or to me directly, for that matter), and I'll be
glad to help as much as I can. Or if you'd like to see an example of
our newsletter, I'd be glad to send that along.
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