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Originally Posted by j.p.s
That was never ever my experience.
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Not to be a wiseass or snark--
seriously--but did you ever sit down with tutorials or a short class from MSFT in how to use it?
I found Word nearly unintelligible, after migrating from WordPerfect, 30-ish years ago. I fought it for...gahd, I don't know how long. I then had a need to work on the CC&R's for a Master Planned community with 5-6 sub-communities and I knew that the resulting document was going to be hundreds of pages long with, more importantly, probably 100+ cross references inside it. I had zero desire to have to constantly cross-check, change and update section/para numbers, etc.
I looked on MSFT.com at the time, found 2 tutorials that changed absolutely everything about how I looked at, and worked with, Word. In Word (or LO/OO/etc.) styles and headings are absolutely everything. They drive the bus. If you don't use them ("you" generally, not directly), no, Word will be a confusing mire. If you don't understand how headings work, how they directly map to HTML heading styles, ditto. If you don't look at how Outline View/Mode works, or the Navigation Pane, yes...it's likely confusing.
But once you understand what you can do with Styles (use defaults, make your own); the primacy of the headings and how those domino/cascade (or how you can drive an entire template by changing ONE font in one style, or one font-size,etc. and have it ripple throughout), then that's everything and the "secrets" to mastering Word are yours.
Yes, I know, I sound like a MSFT commercial for Word. Trust me, I'm not--but it frustrates me that people get so stymied with Word. Typically--and this may not be your instance, i freely admit--it's because they've never taken a few hours to genuinely learn what's at the heart of it.
It's like saying you "hate" Styles--what's to hate? I mean...they're TOOLS. That's it. [shrug]
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