Chapter title in footer, MS Word vs. OpenOffice.org Writer

In the office we use Microsoft Office, in my case 2007. Apart from having to search my way to the ribbon, and missing some keyboard shortcuts that were present in previous versions, I can get used to it.

However, I am writing a frankly large document in which it would be nice if you could read the chapter title in each footer. Enter MS Word help. After some searching, I found that it can only be done with sections. That means that each chapter would have to start a new section in order to make this work. The other way round, you then have to make sure that every section gets the right header and footer by linking them together. More sections = more trouble, always.

Obvious question: "Would this be any easier in OpenOffice?" Start it, open help, type 'headers', and there it is, right in the index: 'chapter information'. It's easy: First determine the style you prefer for the heading that you want to use (generally that is Heading 1), then select it as a field in the footer (or header if you prefer).

Plus, all the commands are right where they should be, in a menu, accessable with the keyboard.

Now, why is my company so determined to use MS Office???

Saving your Outlook shortcuts

Outlook has a handy feature in the navigation pane: It let's you save shortcuts to often-used folders.
But I noticed that sometimes these shortcuts disappear (I suspect after an automatic update, but MVP says that cannot be true).
My system administrator has searched for a solution. You cannot make them disappearance-resistent, but you can make a backup of
C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\(profilename).XML.
Now, if you lose them again, simply restore this xml file from its backup location.

A related tip is to reset your navigationpane entirely (should you want that): Start | Run | outlook.exe /resetnavpane.