(^46) THE OFFICIAL RASPBERRY PI BEGINNER'S GUIDE
The LibreOffice productivity suite
For another taste of what the Raspberry Pi can do, click on the raspberry menu icon,
move your mouse pointer to Office, and click on LibreOffice Writer. This will load the word
processor portion of LibreOffice (Figure 3-16), a popular productivity suite – a fancy term for
‘software programs you’re likely to use in a school or office to make documents’. If you’ve
used Microsoft Office or Google Docs, you’ve used a productivity suite.
5 Figure 3-16: The LibreOffice Writer program
A word processor lets you not only write documents, but to format them in clever ways: you
can change the font style, colour, size, add effects, and even insert pictures, charts, tables,
and other content. A word processor also lets you check your work for mistakes, highlighting
spelling and grammar problems in red and green respectively as you type.
Begin by writing a paragraph on what you’ve learned about the Raspberry Pi and its
software so far. Experiment with the different icons at the top of the window to see what
they do: see if you can make your writing bigger, and change its colour. If you’re not sure
how to do this, simply move your mouse pointer over each icon in turn to see a ‘tool tip’
telling you what that icon does. When you’re happy, click the File menu and the Save option
to save your work (Figure 3-17). Give it a name and click the Save button.
EJECT DEVICES
Always use the eject button before unplugging an external
storage device; if you don’t, the files on it can become corrupt
and unusable.
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