I saw these instructions for making a new template. I'm not familiar with when/how you do that rather than just opening OpenOffice. 1.1.4. One thing I don't like about OOo is the breaks between pages where some of the text I paste from websites end up not being there, but, apparently, 'hiding' in the black 'trench' between pages. Only way I can see any or part of what's there is to make the font really tiny and then it all may get on the page I pasted onto. Will making a template allow me to get rid of that feature? I do believe that some of my documents don't lose part of the text pasted, but others do.
Following the instructions below, If I tried experimenting with different styles or view of the OOo 1.1.4 doc, and save it, will that affect all the other docs I have created or will create in the future, or does it just apply locally to the document I'm working in? 1.Open a new, empty document 2. Edit it until it makes a good template. For example, edit the Styles in the Stylist. Thank you, Joan