[libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles

On 5/5/13 5:45 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> A program is intuitive if it matches something in our previous experience.
> Before computers, business professionals used typewriters. If you want a
> computer to be intuitive, you need to make it work as much like a typewriter
> as possible. (I'm still amazed that, after 30+ years, the typewriter remains
> the model of the word processing user interface, even for those who have
> never touched a typewriter.)
>
> But, by making it intuitive, you lose the power of the computer. To gain the
> power of the computer, old dogs need to learn new tricks, like paragraph
> styles, which isn't intuitive.

I'm not so sure that by making it intuitive, you lose the power of the 
computer.  And I will stipulate that what is intuitive to one user is 
not to another.  My Mac drove me up the wall sometimes, in this area. 
Windows?  Not a problem.  But I've got a friend that is the exact 
opposite.  OS X not a problem for her, but never did understand Windows.

What needs to be stressed/taught, is "try something".  Be inquisitive 
about the computer.  "What happens if I do X?"

I often try to mix features between Win and OS X, so it does what I wish 
and makes sense to me.  Right now, I'm trying to get OS X's sidebar view 
in Finder to be similar to the Win Explorer's Navigation Pane.  So far, 
with no success.  :-(  So, if anyone knows of a way...   LOL


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Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.3
Firefox 20.0
Thunderbird 17.0.5
LibreOffice 4.0.1.2


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