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[N. Thompson]

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for replying, I've not found a 
way to set the default paper size in Abiword but I have disabled that 
automatic bulleted list starting in OpenOffice.org and so now I can use 
that comfortably.

I do have to agree with one of the comments someone made, trying to stop 
MS Office from starting bulleted lists is very difficult and thats what 
I have to use at school. If OpenOffice.org had a grammar checker that 
was as good as the one in MS Office then it would probably have the 
office suite beat since spell checking in MS Office doesn't seem all 
that impressive in comparison and it has lots of nagging "features" that 
cannot be disabled along with hugs file sizes because it wants to keep 
track of every single change made since the file's creation.

My notes in school are very simple, all I really need to use is a rich 
text editor, I hardly need all the features found in todays text 
editors. Fortunately now with these configuration changes to 
OpenOffice.org I can happily carry on typing notes without having to 
worry about something I don't want getting in the way and should  I need 
more advanced features they'll be right where I need them. I'm surprised 
however that there are no longer any simply rich text editors around, it 
seems that every office suites coming out now has to be very memory 
intensive and  have it own file format thats incompatible with every 
other office suite.

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