One of the reasons I keeps this weblog is to have a central storage of my cumulative knowledge. That is, instead of writing all kinds of little tidbits in a notebook, I put them here. This has the benefit that wherever there is have web-access the information can be found and perhaps someone else that is looking for the information is happy to find it here.

OpenOffice Writer was given me a minor problem: it set the page size for all new documents to the Letter format. It is not difficult to change, but quite annoying. After some investigation I found that the best (only?) method was to:

  1. Open OpenOffice Writer.
  2. Open the Stylist by pressing F11.
  3. Go to the list with page styles.
  4. Right-click ‘Default‘ and select ‘Modify‘.
  5. In the Page-tab choose the format you want (A4 in my case) and click ‘OK‘.
  6. Go to ‘File -> Templates -> Save‘ to save the current template. Choose a new name.
  7. Go to ‘File -> Templates -> Organize‘ and right-click the save template (probably under ‘My Templates‘) and select ‘Set As Default Template‘.
  8. Restart OO Writer and check if the page size is indeed the correct one.