My experience has been that I have to start all over with learning
styles every time I start a new book. Especially since I rarely use the
same format for two in a row.
Dale Erwin
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Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU
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On 6/20/2013 8:15 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
Wow, Doug, tell us how you really feel. ;)
Like you, I was a WordPerfect devotee for many years as our employer
used it. I bought a copy for my home computer and was very happy.
Then, my employer switched to Word. We all freaked, thinking the world
would end without our beloved reveal codes. My secretary even walked
out of the office and didn't return for three days. It was not a happy
time.
I then started learning Word with its styles-based formatting. At
about the same time, I downloaded what was then StarOffice and used it
at home (I wasn’t about to pay several hundred dollars for Word). Over
time, I learned how to use styles and now, with styles, I can make my
programs sing and dance.
I wouldn't dream of going back to WP. I still have it on my computer
to read documents sent to me by others, and every time I load it, it
looks like a techno-dinosaur.
Reveal codes? Why? With a styles-based program, there are no codes to
reveal. The fact that WP needs reveal codes shows how truly easy it is
to screw things up in a WP document. You can change so many parameters
in mid-paragraph, often by accident, and you can spend a lot of time
trying to track it down. Not so with a styles-based program.
Obviously, WP works for you, which is fine, but in my experience, I
found that with styles, I can accomplish my work much, much faster,
AND get consistent formatting results document wide, which is very
important when you have a document with multiple headings and other
specially formatted paragraphs. With WP, I not only had to proofread
my text, but also my formatting to make sure it was consistent.
Styles have set me free.
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