NeoOffice+Text


 * __NeoOffice Text__**

=**__El Salvador Project__**=

NeoOffice is a free Office suite for Macs that includes presentations, spreadsheets, drawing and word processing applications. During this lesson you will create a small poster in NeoOffice Text. You must choose a department and __find 5 natural attractions and 5 man made attractions in the department__. The next step will be to collect pictures and information for each attraction as well as a map of El Salvador. BE SURE to use an enlarged copy of each picture or the **resolution** may be poor. [[toc]]

Opening the Application
For this project we will be using Text. You can access it from the **applications** folder as well as from the **spotlight**.

Preferences
You will want to set up your preferences first of all. Go to **the NeoOffice** dropdown menu and choose and **Preferences.** **Choose****Choose** **Choose**

Make sure these options are checked. That way NeoOffice will load and save documents in a format that can be read by Microsoft Applications.


 * Choose Text Document from the drop down menu.**



Inserting Pictures

 * Go to Insert>Picture>From File and import your map of El Salvador. Do the same for all other pictures.**

= = =Organising Your Work= You can drag your work around the page and also resize pictures by clicking on the corners and dragging it to the size you prefer.

Once there is a lot of content on your page, you may want to rearrange it so that certain items come to the front and others move to the back. Do so by right clicking on the picture and choosing **arrange**. select from **bring forward, send backward, bring to front, send to back**. =Adding Text= You will need to add text to your poster. There are different ways to do this. We will be using text boxes and Fontworks to add our text.

Text Boxes
Click on the **T** in the drawing toolbar at the bottom of the page. If you do not see this toolbar you will need to click on View>Toolbars>Drawing to add it.


 * Next** Click on the document and begin to type your description of the departments and the different features you have chosen.

Fontwork
Choose Fontwork from the drawing menu at the bottom of the page and select the text style that you want. The style and colour can be changed afterwards.

Click on the word Fontwork to edit your text.



You can re-size your Fontwork as well as edit it. Click on the Fontwork menu to view the different options.

These are the various options available.

You can also adjust the colour of your Fontwork.

Adding Shapes
Click on your choice of shape in the shape toolbar at the bottom of the page.

You will want to choose arrows for this activity.

Editing arrows
You can edit your arrows by clicking on the following buttons. Change the line style.

Change the line width.

Change the line colour. Change the arrow fill.

Saving work as a Word document.
If you forgot to set up NeoOffice to automatically save as a Word document, follow these instructions.

Choose Save As.

Choose the location you wish to save to. Examples: Storage>Personal or Desktop or Documents on that computer Name your file and choose the MS Word 97/2003 option. Click on **Save**.