Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice work-flow?

Hi :)
There is some documentation at 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/
The Styles and Templates chapter might be very useful and would put you ahead of 
most users.  


It's a wysiwyg editor in a gui so yes it is very very different from what you 
are probably used to.  It can be a little unpredictable and weird at times.  You 
might like to press the back-to-front P icon in the tool-bar at the top.  This 
will show all the non-printing characters that are usually invisible and will 
help you feel more in control of the result.  If your colleagues look over your 
shoulder it will drive them mad tho.  


Generally the idea is to sort formatting as you type but that can be very 
inefficient except when trying to use tables.  You are supposed to  keep going 
up to the icons toolbar to click on things to apply formatting to what chunks of 
text you have selected or you can click on something such as the B icon to start 
making things Bold and then click on the B icon again to get back to normal.  
There are a lot of short-cut keys such as Ctrl B that act like the Bold 
icon/button but most people have no idea about those.  They will probably help 
you a lot tho as it means you don't have to keep 1 hand on the mouse as you try 
to type.

Ummm, sorry i can't really help you much!  To be honest it seems like you are 
trying to take a step backwards so there might not be a lot of people able to 
really help you.  It is worth struggling with it tho.  Just try to avoid being a 
perfectionist!
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Ulrik Långström <ulrik.langstrom@sitedirect.se>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 25 August, 2011 15:32:06
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice work-flow?

How do people use LibreOffice effectively?

It's been about 15 years since I used programs like LibreOffice (MS Word at the 
time) to write documents. Maybe a single page or two, but not anything with a 
structure.

Whenever I needed to write longer documents, with headings, references quotes, 
sections et cetera; I used LaTeX and lately HTML.

Now I need to use LibreOffice, because everyone else at my job does, and it's 
been driving me crazy. As I was trying to insert a few excerpts into my 
documents, it stuck me: maybe I'm used to a completely different work-flow than 
what is expected by LibreOffice, and that's why nothing makes sense and things 
that should be easy seem impossible.

So my question is: How do you work with LibreOffice? Does anyone have any 
personal anecdotes about moving from LaTeX or HTML to LibreOffice?

/Ulrik


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