+1 on that, Bruce. I've got a small stash of letters, memos, and technical docs (many just for my own use) that I keep; some of these were crafted in the 1.x version of OpenOffice. Most are version 3.x templates, though. They all still work, just as you describe.
Learning to use templates does not require an extensive amount of additional work. And if you mostly use the same type of document, e.g., an in-house memo form, then set that as the default template. You can always open a different one when you want to write a letter or a formal report. Jim Plante On May 15, 2014, at 11:15 PM, Bruce Byfield <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 May 2014 06:38:37 PM Doug wrote: > > it is hardly worth the effort for the average memo writer, letter >> writer, or even article writer. It would be like a numismatist learning >> metallurgy! > > When I first started using OpenOffice.org well over a decade ago, I sat down > and > figured all the types of short documents I did, and developed templates for > them them. Some years ago, I imported them to ODF, and I am still using them > today. > > Whenever I use those templates, I never have to think about formatting except > occasionally to change styles. Often, I don't even have to do that, because > of > the Next field automatically changes styles for me. The time I save on each > document is small, but over the years I must have saved days' worth of work > -- > and all because I took a little extra time once, years ago, to learn about > styles. So even if you're only doing short, one-off documents, styles can > save > you time and effort. > > -- > Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) > blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com > website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ > > ------------------------------------------- > List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
