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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!manawatu.planet.co.nz!manawatu.gen.nz!news.plain.co.nz!news.express.co.nz!actrix.gen.nz!usenet 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 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <01bc29e6$f20ce700$0b9e32ca@development1> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5f6fhq$el0@faculty.ed.umuc.edu> <5f9oko$l7f@web.nmti.com> <5ffg7n$c69$1@mars.mcs.net> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sharonm.actrix.gen.nz X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:162961 comp.os.linux.networking:70973 comp.os.linux.setup:101122 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6221 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2726 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:55851 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