Those reading may refer to my earlier email regarding problems
making the page numbers visible in a header.

Reponses to that email indicate that I may have a bug in the
pre-installed version on my computer - version 3.2, linux ubuntu.
I downloaded a package from the openoffice.org
http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#tested-full
picked English(US) and Linux 32-bit Intel DEB
and I got the following:
OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

I untarred it and looked at the install instructions that were in
the readme folder. Relevant are as follows:
""""
There is a wide variety of Linux distributions, and even within the
same distribution there may be different installation options (KDE
vs Gnome, etc.).  Some distributions ship with their own ‘native’
version of OpenOffice.org, which may have different features from
this Community OpenOffice.org. Sometimes you can install the
Community OpenOffice.org alongside the ‘native’ version.  However,
it’s usually safer to remove the ‘native’ version before installing
this Community version. Consult the documentation for your
distribution for details of how to do this.
"""
I then removed all of the existing version 3.2 from my system

As you can see, instructions are pretty vague. There is one executable file
in the root folder: 'update', which when executed, as in

sudo ./update

tells me in so many words that it is skipping everything. 
""" in part:
Skipping deselected package ooobasis3.3-core07.
Skipping deselected package ooobasis3.3-en-us-math.
Skipping deselected package ooobasis3.3-calc.
Skipping deselected package ooobasis3.3-core03.
Skipping deselected package openoffice.org3-calc.
Skipping deselected package openoffice.org3-dict-en.
Skipping deselected package ooobasis3.3-core06.
Skipping deselected package ooobasis3.3-impress.
Skipping deselected package openoffice.org3-math.
Skipping deselected package openoffice.org3-draw.
Skipping deselected package ooobasis3.3-en-us-draw.
.....
"""
Grrr! 

I see multiple .deb files in the /DEBS folder, but I kind of expect
a master install file of some sort.
Looking at
http://download.openoffice.org/common/instructions.html#other_linux
I see nothing helpful about installing debian-style packages.
Again Grrr!

Well, I've gone from bad to worse. Now I have no OO at all and maybe
some kind person can enlighten me where to go from here.

l8tr
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Tim 
tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com
http://www.akwebsoft.com
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