Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles

Great idea as long as I'm not the one paying the $25 per document. :)

Virgil

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ken Springer
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 10:56 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles

On 4/29/13 12:00 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.

Hi, Virgil,

I've just read this entire thread start to finish.

If I'm correct, you're looking for a way to encourage/convince/cajole/
(name your poison here!    LOL) to use styles and formatting.

No one has suggested an economic argument.    <grin>

Give them a hypothetical scenario of some kind, possibly like this...

Ask them if anyone is interested in doing some typing and/or document
formatting on the side?  Tell them they will be paid "by the piece", not
"by the hour".  They will be paid $25 per finished document.

Now ask them, would they be happy with doing 2 documents an hour and
make $50?  My guess is, most will say yes.  Now propose this... "What if
I showed you a way to do 4 documents an hour and make $100?"

I'll bet no one says no, and hopefully you've got them hooked.    :-)


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Ken

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