Openoffice is quite nice once you know what you have to do. Personal note about one of my issues follows 🙂

Borders: One of the nice features OpenOffice copied from the Redmond company is the abilty to add a vertical line under a parapgraph. Comes quite handy if you are writing down some simple calculations. But how to delete this line?

Well, as written in this Document, the line is declared as bottom border for the preceding parapraph. So, to delete the line do the following:

To delete the created line, click the paragraph above the line, choose Format – Paragraph – Borders, delete the bottom border.

There are also nifty features available for generating different line styles etc. Just play with —-, ***, ###

Headers on different pages: If you want to add different header for the first page the page templates in the stylist are your friend. For the page template to edit open the stylist, select the page template section. Either define your template to use "first page" as first page and default page for the following pages or do it the other way round. Doesn’t matter actually.