There are several good resources to help answer your questions. The Student’s Guide to OpenOffice Writer is a very good resource for the basic information to answer your questions: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/01/Ooo_for_students.pdf
OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide has more details on these subjects: https://www.openoffice.org/documentation/manuals/userguide3/0200WG3-WriterGuide.pdf Apache OpenOffice User Guide: Writer is a work in progress updating this information: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Writer Further specifics are below: > > 1. will not change double space to single space This is a function of Paragraph Styles > 2. cannot insert page number; the page number continues to be highlighted This is a function of Page Styles, page numbers are usually put into a Footer or a Header > 3. cannot make a long dash after a word Inserting special characters > 4, I want to be able to compare two documents side by side Open both documents, resize their windows and position them next to each other. You may need to adjust the Zoom percentage of each document in View menu. Be careful paying attention to which document your cursor is in when making changes. > 5. I want the system to automatically highlight mis-spellings Turn on Auto Spellcheck: Menu bar at top of window, click on ABC with Red line under it. As a courtesy to you I have sent you a copy of this message. As a courtesy to me Only respond to: users@openoffice.apache.org This group is a worldwide group of users, putting personal information (phone numbers) is usually not a good idea.
