A few weeks ago, I wrote about an issue with OpenOffice. A document I had worked for years suddenly opened as a blank page. There is a question at the end of the following update. The comments that follow are in the hope that OpenOffice doesn't copy Word's features.
My update: Since the blank page issue wasn't resolved, I began using Word (365, I believe) but I was frustrated with Word for many reasons. The menu items seemed to me to be cluttered and too small. Because I used unconventional spelling and grammar, I got a message saying that I had too many grammatical and spelling errors so Word would no longer check my spelling (What!??). Word has no outer lines to define the beginning/end or margins. I much preferred OpenOffice's discernible method of saving a document (green bar) rather than indiscernible method Word uses.
Yesterday, it occurred to me that in trying to resolve the blank page I'd been getting in OpenOffice, I'd not tried to save my Word document back to an OpenOffice document. Wahoo! It worked, at least for now.
The problem I need to resolve now is that in between paragraphs the (white) spaces are not uniform. I believe I have this problem because I wrote off an outline that had main points and sub-points as well as excepts of varying lengths.
If I do a save-as for the entire document (book), what's the best method to make the spacing uniform without changing the font size? In the past, I've been able to make changes in sections but never the entire document.