[questions]

[Laudun John]

> 1. Typing at the bottom of a window is difficult in terms of user
> input.  You can't scroll past the bottom of the text.

This has always annoyed me, too. My workaround is to always keep an  
empty Level 1 row there, or, if the emptiness is not enough, with  
some arbitrary typographical symbol that reminds you not to fill that  
row. I'm kind of hoping that we get some sort of optional status bar  
along the bottom edge of OO4's window. A window without a bottom sash  
just doesn't feel right.

>
> 2. How come text loses formatting when we indent or outdent?

Maybe I'm missing your question entirely, but the simple answer here  
is that text to conforms to whatever the style of that level is: so  
if you indent a Level 4 row, that row will get the style of a Level 5  
row. If you open the tools drawer -- using the CMD + CTRL + T (here's  
my shout out in James and Derek's direction that CMD + OPT + T is  
more like the Finder and Pages) -- you can select all the rows of a  
particular level and then using the palettes assign them all the  
particularities of style you can imagine.

Let me say this: OO's style management is simply one of the easiest I  
have every dealt with. OO makes managing styles in Word and Mellel  
look like the overly-complicated processes they are.

>
> 3. is there an easy way to know how what level child you are working
> on? In long texts, I am continually getting lost.

No help here. Sorry. (Though, obviously, having a clear set of styles  
would tell you.)

john