I'm gonna smash it...

Open Office, again...
- won't let me apply paragraph styles after I've created them. Or will forget to apply the font.
- won't let me apply the page style, or will apply it to the whole document
- print pages 1 and 18 when I want to print pages 1 and 2
- behaves randomly regarding the fonts menu
- works at snail's pace anyway, because you know, NO ONE in their right mind would type a 40 pages document (that also being a problem for Scribus, obviously, which causes the software to freeze and crash after two to four minutes of work)
- scrolls randomly back or forth when I save

My current plan for the chapter titles I want to have in the effing middle of the page ? leaving a blank page and handwriting them.

Oh, and I've not gotten as far as exporting the darn thing on pdf and then printing it as a book, I guess this reserves me even more joys.

I want a working desktop publishing software !!!!!

... or a typing machine.

ETA : I've got the page styles/column issue sorted. I can now officially say Word is better than Open Office. Or less worse.