OpenOffice.org Margins?

[Robert Tilley <tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com>]

I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian 
Linux.  The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and 
then re-opened in OOo Writer.  The issue with the document is margin-spacing.

I wish to have a document-wide left and right margin of one (1) inch.  
Selecting All (ctrl-A) and then adjusting the margins does not move the 
margins to a document-wide setting.  I suspect this is because in Word, the 
document had many "Section Break, Next Page"-marks thus causing many 
different margin settings to exist.  This should be easy to correct, now that 
I know the probable cause.

Without starting a flame-war, I would like to know a good editor for long 
text-based documents.  I have a set of documents that I am, as mentioned, 
transferring from M$ Word to an open standard (corporate bylaws, corporate 
minutes, etc.) that only need basic formatting (bold, underline, heading, 
etc.) for text files.  
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Comments are appreciated,

Bob