Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles

       Sounds as if you're referring to an outline;
           one composes his thoughts in an outline then writes the main
paragraph then the concluding paragraphs -
               [newspaper writing]
           or expands on each for prose writing -

       Well, from a reporter/writer's point of view ...
           oops, there I go again - off on another tangent  ;-)



On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Kevin O'Brien <zwilnik@zwilnik.com> wrote:

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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