Open Office and different first page headers.

I've used Open Office for quite a while now and always been frustrated with the fact that I didn't know how to do a different header on the first page. Since I have not had to use this personally it hasn't been a big deal. Now my wife is taking a writing class needs to be able to do this so I finally started trying to figure it out. Enough of the preamble.

I discovered that it is really pretty simple. Go to the first page of you document and bring up the styles (press F11) and then find the page styles lists and select "First Page." That's even easier than when using MS Word. The only issue now is that the feature does not apply when saving as a Word document.

More Impressed

Being a fan of OpenSource software I really like OpenOffice (OO). I do have to admit that thus far MS PowerPoint has had the upper hand on OO Impress. One of the reasons was that OO didn't have templates that are available in PowerPoint. We'll that has changed. I stumbled upon the OO extensions website: extensions.services.openoffice.org today and found the Professional Template Pack by Sun Microsystems, Inc. It is available in several different languages. It is a must have if you are not into creating your own templates and want something that looks different than the two that come with OO. This is one step closer to Impress being a solid alternative to PowerPoint.

Thanks to Sun.