I would like us to develop a series of tutorials on using styles and templates,
focusing on when, why, what for as well as how, using common tasks to illustrate
the concepts.
For example, page styles are fundamental to using Writer, but many people coming
from another program like MSWord are expecting to do things using "sections"
that Writer does using page styles ("sections" serve a different purpose in Writer).
Paragraph styles are less unfamiliar to former MSWord users, but most people
don't use para styles in any program and don't understand all the ways in which
para styles can make their work easier.
Templates have some fundamental uses, too, that many people don't discover. For
example, many MSWord users expect something similar to Word's normal.dot, and
don't make the connection to using a self-defined default template.
I could go on with other examples, but instead I have put this on the wiki where
others can more easily add their ideas and topics and volunteer to write one or
more tutorials.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Styles_and_Templates
Much of this info can be extracted from the Getting Started book, the Writer
Guide, and other books and then improved upon by reworking into more targeted
tutorials about specific tasks.
--Jean
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