Hi :) Actually i find even then styles help quite a bit. I don't use Master Documents or sub-documents yet but the basics help.
For the new document you can; 1. right-click on the style, such as "text-body" (although i think it might be better to create a new one by copying that to a new name) 2. "Modify style" 3. Watch the changes ripple throughout the document. Although i tend to just stay with my preferred "house style" anyway. I sometimes do posters for my company's (well my bosses) client groups and still find styles quite useful. They give a good base-line and then i do some direct formatting to make it more wacky and eye-catching (but not tooo much). Regards from Tom :) On 26 March 2014 12:54, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/26/2014 6:08 AM, James E Lang wrote: >> >> Hi, Tom and others. >> >> I am finding this discussion to be intellectually stimulating though I >> have no idea as to the mechanics involved in developing or using master >> documents. >> >> What you write about saving time is most likely very true. However I have >> probably never written a document with more than about a dozen paragraphs >> and I have no idea where to look for the study materials that you say can be >> read in ten minutes thus immediately saving twenty minutes to an hour. > > > Having shouted the glories of styles, let me also say that their benefit > comes from doing the same types of documents over and over again. If I were > using Writer to create a wide variety of (relatively short) documents, then > styles might make me go mad. To use them properly would require me to create > dozens of templates and styles covering every type of possible situation. > That might take far more time than just typing the dang letter and hitting > <ctrl-p>. > > As for master documents, I wouldn't go down that road unless I were doing a > truly massive project, in which one minor corruption could ruin the entire > document. > > > Virgil > > -- > 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
