Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles

On 04/29/2013 05:10 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:
> I'll admit to not using styles, but not so much because I don't want 
> to.  I've been using the various word processing programs since PCs 
> were first produced, before the concept of styles.  They came out 
> shortly after, of course, but they got little or no attention in the 
> limited technical press that I followed at the time.  By the time they 
> were in widespread use, I was pretty well entrenched in my ways.
>
> I've tried reading the documentation on them, but (a) I never have the 
> time to sit down and actually learn them and (b) the documentation 
> isn't all it could be -- this goes for MS as well as OO/LO.  The 
> biggest problem I've had, and I still don't know the answer, is how to 
> actually save the styles so they're available for any document.  I 
> don't like any of the defaults, but don't see the point of creating a 
> style that is usable only in one document, so I just do all the 
> hard-formatting I need (which may take up more disk space, but it's 
> also a lot more flexible as far as I can tell).
>
> I'm slowly catching on, but it's going to be a while.
     Have you read chapter 3, Using Styles and Templates, of the 
Getting Started Guide? It was written using a template containing all 
the styles that were needed. I use the same template to write several 
chapters of the Base Guide. It also contains what I need even though the 
topics are vastly different.

--Dan

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