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From: "Thomas Beagle" <thomas@actrix.gen.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Word vs Latex
Date: 6 Mar 1997 04:32:57 GMT
Organization: Actrix Networks Limited
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Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote in article
<5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com>...
> Yes, that's the problem. Word knows what a paragraph is, and doesn't have
> any context larger than a paragraph and smaller than a document.

Sections, frames, and tables?

If you're using Word for large documents you should be trying to separate
the content from the layout as much as possible. Design your document
layout and implement it with styles, then enter your content and apply
styles as you go. If you need to change the appearance anywhere you should
either not do it or create a new style and use it consistently from that
point on. Anything else will just lead to inconsistency or hours of
mindless tweaking in dialog boxes (or writing macros to reformat the text
for you - thereby reimplementing styles in your own code!).

BTW, if you select a group of paragraphs with different indents and then
press Ctrl-M or Shift-Ctrl-M (there's some little toolbar buttons as well)
it will indent or outdent the selected paragraphs by one level.

-- 
Thomas Beagle
Sapphire Technology Ltd
thomasb@sapphire.co.nz