Upgrading OpenOffice in Ubuntu 9.10

I thought it would update to 3.2 automatically through apt-get (and it might - I might not have the proper repositories configured?), but as it doesn't I had to find another way.
Being new to Linux and the way of doing things, I relied upon the Google-results I would get.

I found these steps to be easy enough to follow. This post is basically just a repost of those for my own benefit so I'll find them again later.

Instead of making the three small files in the guide I found, I just entered the commands in a single terminal window, one by one, continuing as they would finish, while adding a new one (wget). I definitely see the benefit of having them as files, making it a lot easier to use on multiple systems, and updatable with newer versions. However, for a one-off thing, typing them all in a single terminal-window works just as well.

• wget http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.2.0/OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
• cd Downloads
• Puts us in the /home/Downloads-folder. This is where wget puts the files downloaded unless otherwise is specified.
• sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*
• This removes whatever OpenOffice installation installed on the system after you've entered your password.
• tar -zxvf OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
• This unpacks the contents of the downloaded archive and puts the files into /home/Downloads/OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb. I could probably rename it to something simpler, but I haven't toyed around to do so.
• cd OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/
• Puts us in that folder.
• sudo dpkg -i *.deb
• Goes through all the .deb-packages in the folder we just cd'd into and installs the software in them.
• cd desktop-integration
• Puts us in the folder /home/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/
• sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org.3.2-debian-menus_3.2-9472_all.deb
• Installs the package in that folder.

Feel free to suggest improvements to this process in the comments.

How do I change the page layout from Portrait to Landscape for an entire document?

I was recently asked how one goes about changing the layout of a page in OpenOffice from Portrait to Landscape for printing purposes. At first I thought it possible to change the layout of the page in the printer settings. Upon printing the document, I found I was wrong.

Having used Word 2007 exclusively for nearly three years, I was accustomed to the ribbon and thought the option would be at a similar place in OpenOffice Writer. Following some brief browsing through various options, I found myself turning to Google to figure out how one changes the layout.

I was quickly directed to the official OpenOffice Wiki, looking at the following steps:

Format -> Page brings up the Page Style dialog. Here, in the Page tab, you can change the Orientation from Portrait to Landscape, and vice versa. Control of the page format applies here (US Letter, A4, A3, etc...), as does page margin settings.

This made the preview change to a landscape format, and printing the document resulted in the results at first expected from changing printer settings.