First Steps
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- Introduction
- Theory
- Document Structure
- Chapter Headings
- Chapter Numbering
- Table of Contents
- Outline
- Navigator
- Text Body
- Paragraph styles overview
- Reusing styles
- Default Page Formatting
- Title Page
- Papers without a Title Page
- Pages with and without numbering
- Roman Page Numbering
- Group Work
- Proofreading
- Numbered lists and bullets
- Line numbering
- Cross-references
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Quotes
- Tables
- Charts
- Pictures
- Snapshots
- Presentations & Graphics
- Cross tables (Statistics)
- Extra Long Web Adresses
- Fonts
- Emphasis
- Special Characters
- Non separable combinations
- Shortcut keys
- Mouse clicks
- PDFs
- Saving your files
- Several files open at once
- Search and replace
- Spell Check
- Synonyms
- Document Infos
- Labels and Form letters
- Help
- Installing Program
- Microsoft Word
- Practice I
- Practice II
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When embarking on a new text you will invariably say to yourself: should I concentrate just on the content and leave the formatting till later? Or should I try to format the text properly right from the beginning?
The second approach is the right one. Using Styles is so easy there is really no reason why you shouldn’t apply them right from the start.
Here some of the advantages of this way of going about things:
- save time
- using the Navigator (see section 10) you can jump to any chapter you wish to edit without having to scroll up or down to it
- chapters and sections can – again using the Navigator – be reordered with just one mouse click
- you’ll have a better idea of what the final result of your efforts is going to look like
