Here is a tool that you will want to remember. By highlighting any part of a OpenOffice document and selecting Clear Formating as shown in the attachment "Clear.png", the formating will be removed. Today I was working on a document where some unwnated formating crept in. This was formating that could not be removed using the formating tools available. Then I stumbled upon this gem and I was no longer wishing for the reveal codes feature in WordPerfect. It would be nice if we could have that, but at least this feature quickly solves the problem (in this case I had double line spacing that would not just go away) and lets us carry on with our work.
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Wordperfect
One of the things I missed from early versions of Wordperfect was the Thesaurus. WP 5.x had an excellent Thesaurus! I'm also reminded of a command line DOS tool I used, the name escapes me, that graded your grammar. I'd love to see something like that for Open Office.