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 :) ________________________________ From: Ulrik Långström <[email protected]> To: [email protected] 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
