Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles

On 4/29/2013 2:00 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> I'd like to get some general opinions about paragraph styles.
>
> I am a retired lawyer who led a local government law office. When I 
> was working at that office, I tried in vain to get my employees to use 
> paragraph styles. For them, styles were a bother to set up and 
> maintain. I love using them, but then I'm as much a word processor 
> junkie as I am an end-user.
>
> Now, I teach a paralegal course in technology at my local university. 
> I recently spent three weeks teaching styles to my students and they 
> have resisted me all the way. My sense is that people just trying to 
> get their work done see paragraph styles as an nuisance, not 
> appreciating the amount of time they can save by investing a little at 
> the beginning.
>
> What about the rest of you. Do you use styles? Do you find that other 
> less-techy types avoid them?
>
> It makes me wonder if there is a way to make them more accessible to 
> people less inclined to invest time in their technology as opposed to 
> getting a task done.
>
> Virgil

I am with you, Virgil. I just taught some folks at a convention this 
weekend about this. My way of doing this combines Styles and Templates 
in such a way as to automate the workflow, which is a tangible benefit 
you can see right up front. My default template has a modified Heading 1 
that it opens to automatically. That is set to go to a Heading 2 as the 
next style, and the Heading 2 is set to go to a Paragraph style as the 
next one. This is what I do for my workflow, which tends to be memos and 
technical writing, but I think anyone can see the payoff this way since 
it reduces a lot of work once you set it up.

Regards,

--
Kevin B. O'Brien
zwilnik@zwilnik.com
A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw.


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