Starting Openoffice.org; Viewing Pdf Files And Other Documents; Searching For Data - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - KDE Getting Started Manual

Starting OpenOffice.org

The office suite OpenOffice.org offers a complete set of
office tools, including word processor, spreadsheet, presen-
tation, vector drawing, and database components. Because
OpenOffice.org is available for a number of operating sys-
tems, you can use the same data across different computing
platforms.
To start OpenOffice.org in the word processor view, press
and enter oowriter. Alternatively, start OpenOf-
Alt + F2
fice.org Writer from the Main Menu. To create a new doc-
ument, select File → New and choose the type of document
to create. To open an existing document, select Open and
choose the appropriate file from the file system.
Viewing PDF Files and Other
Documents
Documents that need to be shared or printed across plat-
forms can be saved as PDF (Portable Document Format)
files, for example, in the OpenOffice.org suite. View them
with Okular, the default KDE document viewer.
Using Okular Document Viewer
Apart from PDF files, Okular allows you to view a great
number of file formats, such as PostScript, several image
formats, OpenDocument format (ODF), OpenDocument
text (ODT), some eBook formats (ePub), and even Micro-
soft* Compiled HTML Help (CHM). Okular also provides
support for bookmarks, annotations, form fields and multi-
media contents, and rotation of pages.
Start Okular from the Main Menu or press
enter okular.
To open a document, select File → Open and choose the
desired file from the file system. Navigate through the
document by using the navigation icons at the top or bot-
tom of the window. Depending on which icon you click on
the navigation panel on the left, the sidebar either shows
a table of Contents, a Thumbnail view of each page, the
Reviews for this file, or your Bookmarks for this file. To filter
for any text listed in the sidebar or the overall document,
enter a string into the input field at the top of the sidebar.
If you want to select and copy text or images from the file
in Okular, click the Selection icon in the toolbar and select
one of the options from the context menu. Click the Browse
icon to switch back to browsing the document.
Working with Bookmarks and Annotations
With Okular, you can review a document by highlighting
certain text parts or adding annotations or bookmarks that
Okular then attaches to the file in form of metadata. Note
that the annotations and markers you add are not stored
within the document, so you cannot print them or pass
them on to other users.
1. To add a bookmark for a page, click the page in the
2. To create an annotation for a page, press
3. To open a pop-up note and add text for an annotation
Alt + F2 and

Searching for Data

KDE provides more than one application for finding data
on your computer or in the file system. One application is
KFind which is described below.
Using KFind
To perform basic and advanced searches, use KFind. Start
it from the Main Menu by clicking Applications → Find
Files/Folders or press
Searching by Name
To use a filename (or a part of it) as the search keyword,
proceed as follows:
1. Enter the filename or a part of the filename in the
2. Specify the folder in which to search for the file. Either
3. To search subfolders, check Include Subfolders.
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sidebar or in the main display field and press
The page is added to the Bookmarks list on the left
sidebar. Right-click the bookmark entry to access a
context menu for going to this bookmark or renaming,
or removing it.
one of the annotation tools from the toolbar that ap-
pears. The annotation is added to the list of Reviews
and is flagged with the login name of the user who
created it. Use the icons at the bottom of the sidebar
to group the annotations by page, by author or to show
the annotations for the current page only.
(or to remove an annotation), right-click the annotation
entry in the Reviews list and select the respective menu
item. The annotations or markers you added are auto-
matically attached to the file, you do not need to save
them.
Alt + F2
Named input field. Use wild cards, such as an asterisk
(*), to indicate missing characters in the filename.
enter a path to the folder in Look in or click Browse to
locate the folder.
Ctrl + B.
F6 and select
and enter kfind.