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Originally Posted by philja
What joy !!! I came upon this thread while searching for something else and now I've wasted the best part of an evening on it.
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When talking to fellow writers, I'm constantly dismayed at their ignorance of styles and have attempted to convince them that they would find it easy to learn to set them up even in Word and that is one reason that I keep a copy of MS Office on the W10 box. Personally, I find it easier to set up styles in LibreOffice Writer than in Word but you can do it all in Word if that's all you've got.
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Lotsa luck with that. I can tell you--and this is not hyperbole--that this is effectively my line of work, assessing/analyzing manuscripts (by writers) to make into books, eBooks, etc. We've quoted well over 10,000 books and we've produced over 9K since '08-ish and thereabouts, most since 2010. Now...ask me how many manuscripts I've seen that have both headings and Styles? Or hell, even just headings?
I won't say I can count them on my digits--I can't--but it's shockingly close to that. I've tried, I really have, to convert writers to the joys of Styles but....they just don't want to hear it. I guess it keeps me in business, by and large, so I should shut up but their unwillingness to learn it and use things like the Nav Pane, etc. really continues to surprise me.
Hitch