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How to Black out text in odt

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in this video ill show you how to block out or redact texts from a pdf for free without using docHub welcome to this video my name is david i hope youre well wherever you are heres the pdf i need to redact some sections from lets assume we want to redact this particular title or maybe anything else inside here so how can we do it without using docHub robot pro dc we can reduct or block out the text using an application called libreoffice draw and this is an application of covered on the channel a couple of times so ill leave a link to libreoffice the whole suite but this is libreoffice draw so what we need to do is we need to open our pdf this particular pdf file inside libreoffice lets just close it out so that we dont get conflicts that another application is using that particular pdf and then go to file open the particular pdf that we want to reduce the text or block out the text from click on open and this is our text so we want to potentially lets say redact

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Shortcut keys for OpenOffice.org Writer Shortcut KeysEffectCtrl+RAlign Right.Ctrl+Shift+BSubscript.Ctrl+YRedo last action.Ctrl+0 (zero)Apply Default paragraph style.56 more rows Mar 9, 2009
Under Tools Options Application Colors, choose LibreOffice Dark from the scheme menu.
Start Word and open a document in which you want to blur some text. Select the text you want to blur by clicking your mouse and dragging over the text. Click on the Text Effects drop-down arrow in the Font group on the Home tab of the Word ribbon.
You can use a black marker to physically black out the information that you want to keep confidential. This is the easiest way to redact information and just involves you printing out your bank statement and using a black marker to cover up the information that you want to keep confidential.
Under Tools Options LibreOffice Application colors change the Document background colour. NOTE: If you dont like the predefined colours, it is possible to define new ones under Tools Options LibreOffice Colors. Thanks for answering.
How do I do revision marking (redlining) in Apache OpenOffice? Open the document to be edited. From the pull down menus, choose Edit Changes Record.
How? Open your document in LibreOffice. Click (Tools ▸ Redact) from the main menu, and wait for your document to be prepared for redaction (converted to an internal meta-format, and transferred to Draw) Do the redaction by using the Rectangle Redaction, and the Freeform Redaction tools on the Redaction Toolbar
Sanitize your documents. Choose Tools Redact. Click Sanitize Document in the top toolbar. Choose to selectively remove hidden information or remove all by clicking OK. Choose Save As and save the file with a different name to avoid overwriting the original.
Microsoft Word doesnt have a dedicated redact tool, but you can still remove sensitive data from your Word files.
How? Open your document in LibreOffice. Click (Tools ▸ Redact) from the main menu, and wait for your document to be prepared for redaction (converted to an internal meta-format, and transferred to Draw) Do the redaction by using the Rectangle Redaction, and the Freeform Redaction tools on the Redaction Toolbar

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