Click on "Format" > "Page" and then click on the 2nd tab on the dialog box that opens. Change the page from A4 to Letter. Everything wants to default to metric sizes when you compose something new.
I've been using OpenOffice regularly for a couple of years now. Employer is too cheap to spring for full MS Office suite. Works fine except I keep having shouting matches with sales staff when they demand (out of ignorance) I put MS Word and Excel on their PC's so they can look at .doc and .xls files. I would try to educate them more if they could just learn to trust me sometimes.
================================================== Chris L's Hiking/Geocaching blog (new and improved!) yoyoartist.blogspot.com
Posts: 1227 | Location: Madison, WI | Registered: January 03, 2003