Hi :) +1 I think there is a balance somewhere. I found that about 20mins of reading the "Published Guides" chapter on styles and spending about 10mins messing with settings saved me about an hour or more on a task that had previously taken at least an hour. I can't remember the exact times but it was something like that. It's probably in the archives from maybe 2-3 years ago but it's not worth looking up better estimates.
Of course i was panicking at the time so i wasn't in the best frame of mind for really taking it all in but even a small investment of time helped save me quite a bit of time that one time and has continued to save me tons of time ever since. I do often go with the defaults but keep meaning to set-up a set of styles to make all my different letters a bit more consistent with each other across different systems. I think you can get some useful time-saving stuff without having to spend hours setting it up. That hopefully gives you more time to improve on your styles to make more time-savings and/or to make your documents look better. Regards from Tom :) On 5 November 2014 00:23, Virgil Arrington <arringto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/4/2014 12:46 PM, jomali wrote: > >> I can't say I agree with Virgil. You can't help working with styles. >> Whenever you create a document, the default set of styles is automatically >> applied. When you create a numbered or bulleted list, you are applying the >> associated styles automatically. The other styles (e.g., heading styles) >> are there for you to use if you need them, no matter how short or one-off >> your document is. Learning to use the style system pays off handsomely, >> even if you only need the defaults. >> >> John >> > > John, > > I fully agree with you. Just learning how styles control so much in Writer > is very helpful. But, I have spent literally hours setting up and modifying > styles. While it has been a labor of love for me, it has been a labor and a > major investment in time, time I might not have if all I'm trying to do is > type a three paragraph letter. And, there have been those times when the > styles just seem to want to fight against me. While I find such battles > fun, they do often distract from the task at hand. > > > Virgil > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
