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Hi :)
Exactly!  


It's like driving an automatic car rather than a gear-shift one but with the option to use 
gear-shift if&when you choose to.  


Most people are more familiar with worrying about what to do right now and with keeping all their 
previous choices in their head.  The idea of surrendering that to an automated process so they can 
just get on with the writing is even quite scary to people.  


However, automatics are catching on.   One lass at work even has it as 1 of her "must haves" when 
choosing a new car.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  






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From: Kevin O'Brien <zwilnik@zwilnik.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2013, 15:11
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles


On 4/30/2013 4:18 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:
As an end user, I'd like to ask one follow-up question to your third 
point.  This is an "I don't understand" type of question, by the way, 
not a challenge.

Are you implying that if I want to, say, indent one paragraph with no 
other changes, I should create a new style for that?  Seems like a lot 
of work since it can be done with one mouse clicks (or, if I ever get 
around to learning how to create shortcut keys, one keystroke 
combination) plus navigating to the paragraph.


Personally, I think this is the wrong way to approach the problem. I 
would start with *why* you want to indent the paragraph. What a lot of 
people do, without ever being conscious of it, is use visual appearance 
to communicate structural information. I start with the structural 
information (What is this object doing here on the page? What is its 
purpose?), and then I can add any visual formatting to it that I need. 
So if the indent is used to denote a quoted passage form another source 
(a very common usage), I would create a style for the *quotation*, and 
give it the attribute of indentation. And I would save it in my Default 
Template because I'm pretty sure this won't be the last time in my life 
that I need to do quoted passages. And if I have a long document with a 
number of objects, I can change the appearance of the quoted passages 
without affecting anything else. This is something the authors of the 
Writer documentation really understand, but it is a new way of thinking 
for most people.

Regards,

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


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