I have Red Hat 8 on a machine, which has an old VGA monitor. Is it possible to configure Open Office to work with such an old monitor? At present the text and icons of Open Office take up the majority of the screen, so it is effectively unusable. The other applications do not suffer from the same severe problem. Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

As I see it, you have only one option, and that is "shrinking" the icons and menu components that make up the OpenOffice UI. There is no setting that I have found to do this, so the only thing to do would be to modify the source. This is, I'm sure, far more work than anyone would want to go to. VGA == 640x480. This is just not realistic for ANY GUI these days, and the fact that Linux rocks our world does not make it capable of miracles! :-) Unless anyone else knows of a way to "shrink" the OOo UI widgets, I suspect the only answer is "get a better monitor". Regards, -- Greig McGill