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• pre-formated and numbered "dummy equation" into the document by typing fn at a beginning of a paragraph and pressing <F3>. (This uses the "auto text" feature of the word processor.)
• Mail marging is described in http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html
  

Some useful keyboard shortcuts (most of them apply across the entire OpenOffice, not only the wordprocessor):

   

<Ctrl>x Cut


   
<F1> Help
   
<Ctrl><Space> Non-breaking space

   
<Ctrl>c Copy
   
<F2> Formula bar
   
<Ctrl><Shift> Non-breaking hyphen

   
<Ctrl>v Paste
   
<F3> Autotext completion
   
<Ctrl><Enter> Manual (hard) page-break

   
<Ctrl>a Select All
   
<F4> Data source view on/off
   
<Shift><Enter> Line-break without paragraph change

   
<Ctrl>f Find (and replace)
   
<Shift><F4> Toggle asolute-relative references in a spreadsheet formula.
   
<Ctrl><Shift><Enter> Manual column break (in multi-columnar document)

   
<Ctrl>z Undo
   
<F5> Navigator on/off
   
<Insert> Insert/overwrite mode on/off

   
<Ctrl><Shift>p Superscript
   
<F7> Spellcheck
   
<Home> Go to beginning of the line

   
<Ctrl><Shift>b Subscript
   
<F9> Update fields (or recalculate spreadsheet)
   
<End> Go to end of the line

   

   
<F11> Stylist on/off
   
<Ctrl><Home> Go to beginning of the document

   

   
<F12> Numbering on/off
   
<Ctrl><End> Go to end of the document

Selection with mouse:

<LeftMouseButton> Select text, cells, etc.

<Shift><LeftMouseButton> Extend the current selection.

Dragging with Mouse:

<LeftMouseButton> Drag the selection to move it.

<Ctrl><LeftMouseButton> Copy the selection to the dragged location.

Some codes used inside equations:

   
   

Element type
   
Example

   
Fractions
   
1 over {2+3}
{a + b} over {d + e}

   
Superscripts
   
a^2 + b^c = c^2
a^n a^m = a^{n+m}

   
Subscripts
   
a_1, a_2, ... a_n
K_r=K_0 e^{-E_a over {kT}}

   
Roots
   
Sqrt {a+b}
nroot 3 {a+b}

   
Greek letters
   
%alpha %beta %gamma %delta %epsilon %varepsilon %zeta %eta %theta %vartheta %iota %kappa %lambda %mu %nu %xi %omicron %pi %varpi %rho %varrho %sigma %varsigma %tau %upsilon %phi %varphi %chi %psi %omega newline
%ALPHA %BETA %GAMMA