Software vs templates

[michael1159]

I am not sure where to put this so here I am. What I am doing is using Open Office (of course) to write an answer to a summons. And, that I accomplished but then I read the rules, uniform trial rules, and my answer has to be delineated by numbered lines; double spaced. So I have to redo it and have been looking on line for freebies but all there is are templates and they are no good for what I am doing.

All I need to know if some one would so graciously point me in the correct direction is "Which software works best with Open Office?" I have command prompted MS to the curb as it locked up all my docs when it updated and the thing is I never used it......and that was a mess I haven't totally cleaned up yet so this is why I need something that works well with Open office.

Remember I am doing legal work for myself so I guess I need a writer that does it or just software that will work well with OpenOffice. thank you.

[John_Ha]

my answer has to be delineated by numbered lines

Help > OpenOffice Help > Find. search with numbering and read Adding line numbers.

my answer has to be double spaced.

Highlight all text. Format > Paragraph > Indents and spacing > Line spacing > Double

See example.odt.

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