I am not savvy enough to handle OpenOffice the way it might be best
handled for my aims but there are other alternative, if elaborate,
work-arounds.

Using the text editor RoughDraught for example allows me to treat
paragraph spacing and tabs the way I like to in Word. Microsoft
products though, in my opinion and on my previous computer, do not
work well together.

So I am not installing Office on this one.

Maybe I will have learned sufficient of Access to manage things as
though the computer was doing what they are designed for one day.
Meantime I waste my time trying to fold these things in with each
other:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...p3XjO6VaAdqhGA
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...p3XOPqOScOLOIA

This last one ^, shows the storms for 2007 given he

http://www.gdacs.org/cyclones/

....archived when I was working on them.

I deleted the ones lower than Cat 1 on the Saffir Simpson scale but
feel I could have got rid of those in the F1 and F 2 bracket also.

However there is a lot to learn and they impact the Mag 6 quakes (if
anyone is interested) in the NEIC lists he

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_big.php

I'd leave the lot in for elaboration but the archived storms don't
include the winter hurricanes for example (which are intense from
September through March and run counter to the accepted meteorological
dogma in heading west to east and at high latitudes.)

Who knows what other severe storms are not tracked at all? (Besides
god, that is.)

And anyway, their impact is on the middle range earthquakes and there
are just too many of them to bother with.

Google Documents can be found he
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=...2vdguoOd9Prg3A
Open Office he
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=...BJIlC7DGyPlwvw
And RoughDraft, he
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=...pfpM0y8tO-9Aeg