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Originally Posted by Solo1959
I can't answer the common denominator question. The Master Document feature looks like an extremely powerful tool.
My story is probably typical of many LibreOffice / MS Word users. I am retired. I went through college using a portable manual typewriter, and a good portion of my professional life using an IBM Selectric. I even used a slide rule in college. Word Processing came late in the game. I took no courses. I learned different tips and tricks from some of the secretaries and have managed to get the job done. I would expect and hope that students today are taught advanced word processing either in high school or college freshman year.
I have fudged my way through many documents and did work the long, wrong and hard way because I was never taught some of the tools that are included as part of these office suites. I even wrote in my previous response that as long as it looks pretty, I'm happy. How I would have loved to use some of these tools when I was just getting started!
The Master Document tool looks like a good feature, but it's not something I will be able to pick up right away. I've been looking at it since it was mentioned here. It is powerful, but it's work to learn it. And I will. But I think that if students are taught how to use these amazing office suites, they will truly be blessed.
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They will indeed be blessed, which reminds me sometime this week I am going t have to teach a friend of mine how to use page breaks, headers with pagenumber fields, and several other tricks that will make his next essay not look quite so embarrassing.
Because the sad little secret is, they aren't being taught.
