Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice work-flow?

Hi :)
I find 
Ctrl z to undo and
Ctrl y to redo
are awesome time-savers along with 
Ctrl x to cut or
Ctrl c to copy and 
Ctrl v to paste
and then apply formatting to the pasted text.  Ctrl Shift V is supposed to paste 
unformatted which might help if it works.  It does work with some apps but not 
others ime.
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: James Wilde <james.wilde@sunde-wilde.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 25 August, 2011 17:25:21
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice work-flow?

Hej Ulrik:  Comments inline.

On Aug 25, 2011, at 16:32 , Ulrik Långström wrote:

> How do people use LibreOffice effectively?

In order for us to be able to answer that, it might be a good idea if you tell 
us how you work with LaTeX and HTML.  For example, do you write the whole 
document and then begin formatting it, adding whatever codes you need to create 
a header, body text, bold and italics and so on, or do you add these codes as 
you go along?
> It's been about 15 years since I used programs like LibreOffice (MS Word at the 
> time) to write documents. Maybe a single page or two, but not anything with a 
> structure.
>
> Whenever I needed to write longer documents, with headings, references quotes, 
> sections et cetera; I used LaTeX and lately HTML.

You mention 'longer' documents.  Do you mean documents with chapters or at least 
sections?  Do they have a table of contents?  An index?  Do they include 
graphics of some kind?  If you are into _really_ long documents, like books, you 
will probably want to look at master documents.  These can be thought of as a 
document containing other documents, rather like the include statement in a 
program - since you use LaTeX I assume you're a unix/linux user.  A master 
document allows you to create your long document in passable chunks, which don't 
necessarily have to be a chapter, they can be bigger or smaller.  You just hang 
them together at the end to get your book.  And if your chunks are small enough 
you can easily rearrange them to improve the structure of your work.
> Now I need to use LibreOffice, because everyone else at my job does, and it's 
> been driving me crazy. As I was trying to insert a few excerpts into my 
> documents, it stuck me: maybe I'm used to a completely different work-flow than 
> what is expected by LibreOffice, and that's why nothing makes sense and things 
> that should be easy seem impossible.

Assuming you do write your whole document in more or less continuous text 
without bothering about formatting until you're done with an acceptable draft, 
you now put on your formatting cap, and, as Tom says, there are various ways to 
format text.  Basically they are all about marking the text you want to format, 
and choosing the format either by clicking an icon or entering a keyboard 
shortcut.  In this case, by contrast with HTML (don't know about LaTeX) you get 
to see the effect of your change immediately, and can reverse it with two 
clicks.

Some of your formatting you can do more or less automatically, for example, if 
you want to format each chapter with a header in 14pt 3 cm down the page, and 
continue with double spacing, you can set up a default document with those 
characteristics, and just enter your text, and it will be formatted 
automatically for you.

Hope this helps.

//James

> So my question is: How do you work with LibreOffice? Does anyone have any 
> personal anecdotes about moving from LaTeX or HTML to LibreOffice?
>
> /Ulrik
>
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