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2. The more gentle solution is to delete or replace existing styles with others. For that

just go to Edit › Find & Replace › More Options and tick Styles. So you

would use this method to replace all occurrences of the Default style with the

style Text Body. This way of going about things is especially useful for very long

texts with lots of very useful styles and only a few useless ones you want to get rid of

or overwrite. In the list of Page styles you also have to delete all Convert-Styles – these

are namely restovers from Word.

Note: I strongly recommend not using Microsoft Word. We all know how popular MS Word is,

almost everybody has it though not necessarily legally. Some people will argue, “Well, you

must use it, because it’s the ‘standard’.” Or they might say: “Well, you know, later on in your

future work place you will probably have to use it, so you might as well get used to it.” In real-

ity Word shows little respect for established standards. To take just one example: Word posi-

tions the page header not in relation to the text but instead inside the upper margin and relat-

ive to the upper edge of the page. So the wider the margins get the greater the distance

between the header and the actual text becomes. This means you have to adjust the distance

between header and upper edge of page separately in order to move it closer down to the

actual text (and vice-versa if you again change your mind). OpenOffice follows the general

rule of subtracting the necessary space for the header from the space reserved for the text

leaving the upper margin untouched. Same goes of course for page footers. MS Word menus

are extremely unstructured making it very difficult to find things. Instead you are offered a

whole palette of pretty buttons you can press, with such non-committal names as “intensive

quote” which are anything but standard concepts in typography. Also the “.doc” format is not

an open standard but proprietary of Microsoft. And why waste your time now using an inad-

equate programme simply because later on in life you might have to any way? It’s a bit like the

kindergarten argument: “Get the kids used to harsh discipline now because it will make it

easier for them during military service.” I for one see it the other way round: enjoy life as

much and as long as you can, and that will give you greater stamina to resist any misery in

store for you later on.

Illustration 15: As you can see the header in Word sticks to the upper page edge regardless of

margin width and away from the main text to which it belongs; OpenOffice leaves margin free.

UpperMargin

Result in MS Word

Result in Openoffice

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