Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

Hi :)
Actually i find even then styles help quite a bit.  I don't use Master
Documents or sub-documents yet but the basics help.

For the new document you can;
1.   right-click on the style, such as "text-body" (although i think
it might be better to create a new one by copying that to a new name)
2.  "Modify style"
3.  Watch the changes ripple throughout the document.
Although i tend to just stay with my preferred "house style" anyway.

I sometimes do posters for my company's (well my bosses) client groups
and still find styles quite useful.  They give a good base-line and
then i do some direct formatting to make it more wacky and
eye-catching (but not tooo much).

Regards from
Tom :)



On 26 March 2014 12:54, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/26/2014 6:08 AM, James E Lang wrote:
> > Hi, Tom and others.
> >
> > I am finding this discussion to be intellectually stimulating though I
> > have no idea as to the mechanics involved in developing or using master
> > documents.
> >
> > What you write about saving time is most likely very true. However I have
> > probably never written a document with more than about a dozen paragraphs
> > and I have no idea where to look for the study materials that you say can be
> > read in ten minutes thus immediately saving twenty minutes to an hour.
>
>
> Having shouted the glories of styles, let me also say that their benefit
> comes from doing the same types of documents over and over again. If I were
> using Writer to create a wide variety of (relatively short) documents, then
> styles might make me go mad. To use them properly would require me to create
> dozens of templates and styles covering every type of possible situation.
> That might take far more time than just typing the dang letter and hitting
> <ctrl-p>.
>
> As for master documents, I wouldn't go down that road unless I were doing a
> truly massive project, in which one minor corruption could ruin the entire
> document.
>
>
> Virgil
>
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