Creating a New Document in Open Office

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Gary for ExpertVillage. Now we are going to go ahead and do the same thing we did in Word with the program, Open Office. That's the program we said, it's a free program. It's open source, meaning the source code is done by just people in the public. Programmers who want to contribute their time to make the program. And, we are going to open up a new document and it's going to be a text document. Now, similar to Word, this is our blank document. This is where we are going to create the body of our letter that we are going to use for the merge and instead of typing everything, I'm just going to paste in my sample letter from the previous example. And, we see here, it works the same. This is my letter, the same as what you would create and you would leave spaces where you want the fields to go into. And, we are going to now put this letter into our mail merge wizard and it's going to help us put in those fields. So, we go to tools and click on mail merge wizard and we see that it's a bit of a different wizard, but it has the same functionality. The first thing we do, is we want to create our document. We are going to use the current document that we started already, but if you didn't start you can also create a new document. And you see, on the left here, we have the different functions that's similar to what we had in Word of inserting the address block and the document type, whether it's going to be a letter or labels."