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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield

Nine Myths About Styles in LibreOffice Writer

As Robin Williams (the designer, not the comedian) once explained in her book title, The PC Is Not A Typewriter. Office and layout programs are not just a keyboard with a screen, but an entirely different way of working. Central to that difference is the idea of styles – a defined set of formatting options comparable to a variable declared in code. Yet many writers refuse to use styles, preferring to format everything manually, even at the cost of making their work slower and more laborious.

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