1. Transition to College
with the MITS Freedom Stick

2. the freedom to do it yourself
Part One: Open Office Skills

3. Open Office Skills
1. Organization
2. Taking Notes
3. Saving in Various Formats
4. Using Auto-Correct

4. Create Course Folders
Double-Click
to Open

5. Create Course Folders
Double-Click
to Open

6. Create Course Folders
Click on "New Folder"

7. Create Course Folders
Create and Name a
Folder for Each of
Your Classes

8. Create Course Folders
Within each course folder
create sub-folders to keep
yourself organized

9. Back Up
Back Up your documents folder
either to your computer
or to another flash drive
Drag this folder icon to
your computer desktop
or copy it and paste it
onto another flash drive
plugged into the
computer

10. Notetaker
File: New
Templates
then choose
Notetaker

11. Notetaker
Auto Date
allows you to
save in a course Arrows allow you to
folder by date slide items "left and
right" to re-organize
outlining
You can just
take notes now,
organize later as
a study tool

12. Notetaker
Click to select
and replace with
Course Name
Click to select
and replace with
homework and
other
assignments

13. Notetaker
Save in Homework
folder for this course
Use date for file name,
this will keep files in
order in your folder

14. Saving in Formats
• .odt is default
(Open Office)
• .doc is Microsoft
Word full
compatibility
• .txt and .rtf are
universal formats
but will lose
much of the
formatting

15. Auto-Correct
Select "Tools" Menu
Choose
"Auto-Correct"

16. Auto-Correct
Create 3-5 letter
"shortcut" here - make
sure it is not a word
you'd use ("mitsa"
instead of "mits")
Put phrase or
complex word here

17. Auto-Correct
Type shortcut then hit spacebar

18. Auto-Correct
Phrase or word will appear

19. Open Office Auto-Correct
Freedom Stick
Tutorial and Spell-Check
Getting Started