Virgil Arrington-2 wrote > ... > btw., Ironically, as I'm typing this, I'm sitting in my Law Office > Technology class while my students are taking a test on the use of > paragraph styles. After teaching this class for five semesters, I've > finally found an approach that works. I think Tom suggested it. I give > them an unformatted document and ask them to format it using any method > they understand. They usually take 30 to 45 minutes and end up with a > mess. I then demonstrate reformatting the document with styles and I'm > done in about 3 minutes and the document formatting is consistent and > useful. I then ask, "If your client was paying $200 an hour to have a > legal document prepared and formatted, who would they rather pay, me or > you?"
A bit OT, but that is a great instructional example on the value of applying styles to unformatted text. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Tab-defaults-change-when-pasting-into-Writer-from-some-other-applications-tp4126945p4127484.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
