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Originally Posted by Hitch
I have exceedingly few writers who "tweak with style" as a method of procrastination. I've been successful in training some of them to use styles, not as some idiotic "make this look pretty" function, but to show them how incredibly useful, from a structural and creative standpoint, all that pesky stuff in the 'dropdown' menus really IS. The styles in the dropdown menus aren't merely text-formatting tools; they're CSS. They're structural, as well as formatting.
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Yep, this is pretty much what I was saying on another thread here (but about OpenOffice/LibreOffice rather than Word). The neat thing about learning to use styles is that one they're there you can forget about whether the appearance is perfect until it's time to prepare for publishing. No more thinking "I have to get this right now because it will be a pain to come back and change it later". No. Just set a style and know that you can quickly and easily play with it as much as you need/want when the actual writing is done.