How can I change the default formatting of Open Office and Office 2003?
I get fed up with spending the first 5 minutes of starting a lab report or eassy to change the Heading 1, Heading 2 etc to how I want it to be.
After setting it, it reverts back to defaults when I open it again for a new document. :furious:
Is there a way to do this or do I have to continue ripping my hair out every new essay?
You could try Microsoft Office, its fully compatable 
Joking aside 
is there not the equivalent of the Normal.dot type file that MS use ?
I just open and type, leave the formatting to someone else
Can’t you do something by saving a template.
Failing that just do a save as on the last similar document. That’s how I do my reports. Surprising how many of the old paragraphs get left in too. 
You’d do this with setting up a template document in the openoffice “my templates” directory as appropriate to your system. Then that template can be used on any document. I believe you can even apply them retrospectively like Word.
In OOo I’ve just setup a basic template for each of my modules as each lecturer wants the reports formated in a different way. I save the basic template as a OpenDocument Text Template (ott) and open that file when I need that formatting.
Cheers guys.
I figured it out eventually, making myself a template and thus opening that template when I want to do a lab write up. Seeing as most of the other stuff is exactly similiar to the way I write labs up, I can use that for all but I haven’t set my default to that as A) Couldn’t see how and B) means I wont get annoyed when just typing into a doc for something simple.
Peige, I mentioned Office 2003. That’s MS Word
Bit of a shame that Uni hasn’t implemented the OOo compatibility files for word.
Lucky I found Open Office portable then I guess