Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles

On 4/29/2013 7:46 PM, Dan Lewis wrote:
> 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
This whole business about forcing people to use "styles" reminds me of 
the "Green Belt" program that was introduced into
my business about 12 years ago. It required at least a week's work to 
just try and make a plan for the simplest project,
which, when the project was undertaken, would wind up scrapped anyway, 
since no-one can foresee everything. I don't
know what eventually became of this--it's one of the reasons I took 
retirement when I did. The green-belt Nazis and your
style Nazis should get along well with each other!

--doug

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