>> No, it won't.  My default printer is set to A4.  OpenOffice still insists
>> on "letter."

> If this behavior regards to all document types (text, sheet, graphic),
> it seems there is a problem with the printer driver. (Or this is a
> "language depending feature" that i don't know.)

Could be.  I have an American release of Windows XP running here.  All the
units I manually switched to metric and the paper sizes in the printer
drivers to A4, because this is Germany and the US standards are a provincial
aberration from globally acceptable norms anyway, used by people who don’t
get out much.

> If this is so, try to set any other printer driver as the system default.

The only other printer driver I have is Macromedia FlashPaper, the virtual
driver that outputs SWF and PDF files, and that one is set to A4 as well. 
Then there was an old fax driver for a modem that’s no longer connected, now
deleted.  Either one, when set to default, wouldn’t have any influence on
OpenOffice’s standard page style setting of “letter…”

> If this behavior regards to text documents only (and ituses a other
> printer driver then the default), it seems, that there is set a template
> file as default template.

When I open OpenOffice.org Draw it also gives me a letter-sized page. 
Apparently the software just assumes I live in the US, using those weird
three-ring binders, unable even to accomodate A4-sized paper because, hey,
why compromise when you’re a superpower…?

> Otherwise how Fernand wrote you can use and set a own template
> with the right settings as default template.

I’d love to, but what’s the name of the file in which template properties
are stored?  Where do I find it?  That paragraph looking like a piece of
source code told me nothing.  I’m a stupid user, who doesn’t do much command
line tinkering.  I translate German to English for a living…

I know that if I downloaded the German release of OpenOffice I wouldn’t have
those problems.  My parents get an empty A4-sized document when they click
on „Neu“ on their machine.

Is there an special OpenOffice version for Brits?  They use A4, after all…

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