Apache OpenOffice is a freely-available, full-featured office suite that runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS computers. Writer is the word processor component. This book describes Writer's main features, including text entry, editing, and formatting; templates and styles; page layout, including frames, columns, and tables; mail merge; fields and forms; master documents; embedding or linking graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects; export to PDF; database integration; and many more.