Internet searching is something that we all do at one time or another. It’s a great way to find a new resource which could help you for a variety of reasons – whether it just be down to personal interests, education or work. We do take the internet for granted these days. If you’re someone who uses it on a regular basis then you may be aware of the hassle of having to switch between the office suite and your internet browser to make a simple search, and then having to return again. However, Open Office has a feature built in to solve this that we’ll talk about in this article.
Instead of having to switch between them, you can actually use the suite to search directly inside of it. You won’t have to worry about switching to a different piece of software to do it, you’ll be able to just go straight in and see the results and then go back to the work you were doing previously. It’s very easy to do as well, the only real thing you need to do is select the search engine you want to use and you should find that you can use the feature straight away. To start with, we’re going to be telling you how you can do exactly that.
The first thing you need to do is load up the program, go into Writer and then into Tools –> Options. This is where you’ll see a huge amount of different settings and configurations you can make which may look very confusing to you. Don’t worry, we’re going to be writing a large amount of articles for you to teach you what each of them do and how you can make the most of the office suite. For now, go into the tab at the bottom, called “Internet” and then into “Search”. This is where you’ll find all of the settings you need for select a search engine.
This page probably will look quite confusing to most people due to the amount of settings and their very unhelpful labels. What you’ll probably be glad about is that you don’t need to change most of these as the default values are correct, the options are simply there in case one of the search engine changes its structure. The only thing you need to do as a user is select a search engine from the “Search in” drop down. You’ll find many options here such as AltaVista, Google and Yahoo. You could even add your own search engine such as Bing here if you wanted to as long as you understood what each option meant. Once you’ve done this, the search engine will be set and you’ll be able to search from it immediately.
In conclusion, setting the search engine of your choice to make it quicker and more efficient to browse the web even when you’re working on documents such as reports, spreadsheets and presentations is very easy. The feature we’ve talked about in this article isn’t very well known to most users which is strange, everyone should be able to take advantage of the ability to search the web directly. The best thing we must always refer to is that the office suite and all of the features it provides are completely free of charge which is something you won’t see very often these days, so we recommend that you install it onto your computer right now if you want to get started and make the most of these great features.