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Originally Posted by Hitch
MS used to have a really slamming toot, on styles, outlining, and all that jazz. I wonder if I can find it again?
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That would be glorious.
Side Note: Since I don't personally use word processors... I haven't gone researching in-depth on them (yet). I know how to apply them and clean up garbage, but I do most of my typing in text editors. Would be nice to gather a lot of the best tutorials in one blog post, then point people towards that to learn Styles.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
I dunno, Jon--I've watched a few minutes and so far, he hasn't even mentioned WHY they matter. Does he?
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Every time I mentioned the Styles video
(at least 6 or 7 times within the past year)... I always include
Microsoft's "Word 2013: Use Quick Styles" video too... I still think it's a great quick overview of the why/how.
The one time I took the lazy way out and only linked to 1/2, Hitch swoops in to complain.
Side Note: Anyway, the tools for Styles are getting better all the time.
LibreOffice 7.0 has been working on Styles + Navigator enhancements (their version of the TOC).
All the more reason to learn how to use Styles and apply them consistently! If only just for making your chapter headings, so you can jump around the document much more easily!
Technical Side Note: And there's two future Styles concepts floating around for LibreOffice:
- Styles Inspector
- Similar to "Inspect" in browser pages, where you can see a sidebar with all the attributes being applied/overwritten
- Styles Highlighter
- Will color-code all the applied Styles + show directly formatted text.
For more details, see the video of the
FOSDEM 2020 talk, "Proposal to inspect and highlight styles in Writer" and/or
read the article from last year.