On 16 May 2014, at 03:12, mt <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry I can't help Julian, I have found no tutorials at all. I'm used to > learning by reading the manual and then lots of trial and error, and after > investing many hours doing just that, I have found that using styles can save > some time with complex documents. > > (I write and translate books, so using styles was "forced" on me by my > editors, a dozen years ago or so. As of today, I am still sort of unsure what > amount of time I have *effectively* saved by learning how to use styles - but > I was given no option, and now that I've grown accustomed to styles, it's > possible I am starting to save time. Twelve years, and many books down the > track....! >:] ) > > To those who chimed in to justify styles: it is quite obvious to me that you > are missing the point. For starters, it sounds like you don't really know > WordPerfect, and imagine "Reveal codes" to be something other than it was.
Thanks for the support. I used WordPerfect from the days when it came from Satellite Systems [or something like that before wordperfect corp - if you were there then you may remember Pete Peterson's 'bedtime stories' on the compuserve forum] and used it through WP 6 on DOS until they abandoned OS2 and I went in other directions. Have been on OO since the early days of Star Office for OS2; now I've moved to Mac OSX. I've had the same frustration with other word processors [most prominently DeScribe] where again the issue of 'reveal codes' was hotly debated in the discussion groups. I don't care about the d**n codes themselves; I just need to know what formatting is applied how and where [and how to adjust it]! In WP you could actually edit the codes [delete a code was the most useful] and fix the document. If anyone cares, I *think* I can fire up an old wordperfect 6 dos session and get a screen shot of what reveal codes looks like. I'm not opposed to the use of styles, but need a shorter learning curve than > > I'm used to learning by reading the manual and then lots of trial and error, > and after investing many hours doing just that Is there a better manual than the online help that I'm missing? cheers - jt ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
