Hi, I use styles as much as I can, just to achieve consistent formatting, to say nothing of time saving.
I find that most people I know who use word processors as a (barely glorified) typewriter are those who are most resistant to using styles. Andrew On 05/05/2013, at 1:22 AM, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: [email protected] > 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. :-) > > > -- > Ken > > Mac OS X 10.8.3 > Firefox 20.0 > Thunderbird 17.0.5 > LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 > > > -- > To unsubscribe 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe 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 > -- To unsubscribe 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
