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authorJosé Mota <josemota.net@gmail.com>2012-04-08 00:22:12 +0100
committerJosé Mota <josemota.net@gmail.com>2012-04-08 00:22:12 +0100
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-layout: post
-title: A new approach to word processing
-tags:
-- Design
-- Miscellaneous
-status: publish
-type: post
-published: true
-meta:
- _edit_last: '1'
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-Last month I came up with a college project where we had to report our work in a 70-90 pages technical document. I was in a five people group and we agreed that everyone had to write a part of it and gather it all in the end. I was talking to another group's colleague about the way they were gathering all the jigsaws of the puzzle. He said his group took about two and a half hours to complete the formatting and design of the whole document. After I browsed through their document, I took my not so good conclusions... The report was somehow inconsistent and compromised. Obviously the job wasn't successfully accomplished.
-
-<!--more-->Most people don't know how to process text and that's a fact. Everyone has this major problem and it affects any organization's productivity. I want to share some thoughts on this subject, namely three tips:
-<h3>No extra RETURN's</h3>
-We are all used to grant whitespace to each paragraph by pressing RETURN, even if a single time. Well, don't. Use the space-before/after-paragraph feature. It may sound strange when you have your text altogether at first glance but when you apply this feature, the results will be shiny and it will save you a lot of time!
-<h3>Default styling</h3>
-You should be using this all the time for two major reasons:
-<ul>
- <li>You get an instant look and feel of what your document will look like. In my modest opinion, the default styles on any word processor look just fine.</li>
- <li>You might now know this but when you apply the default styles available, you automatically build a semantic structure of your document. This means you can create a table of contents or a document outline with zero effort! This is extremely useful when exporting to PDF because it promotes accessibility and usability.</li>
-</ul>
-You can obviously change the style the way you want but you should change the style and not the paragraph using that style. If you change the style you ensuring that every single paragraph is affected and the document looks consistent.
-<h3>Templates</h3>
-It's amazing how powerful this tool can be. Just define the styles in a blank document - you can even put some text with the various styles to be used - and save it as a template. Both Microsoft Word and Apple Pages have this feature. This tool is absolutely power-saving when more than one person writes the same document.
-
-Should you use these suggestions I presented and you will have your time saved for sure.
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+layout: post
+title: A new approach to word processing
+tags: [ design ]
+published: true
+---
+
+Last month I came up with a college project where we had to report our work in
+a 70-90 pages technical document. I was in a five people group and we agreed
+that everyone had to write a part of it and gather it all in the end. I was
+talking to another group's colleague about the way they were gathering all the
+jigsaws of the puzzle. He said his group took about two and a half hours to
+complete the formatting and design of the whole document. After I browsed
+through their document, I took my not so good conclusions... The report was
+somehow inconsistent and compromised. Obviously the job wasn't successfully
+accomplished.
+
+Most people don't know how to process text and that's a fact. Everyone has this
+major problem and it affects any organization's productivity. I want to share
+some thoughts on this subject, namely three tips:
+
+No extra RETURN's
+-----------------
+
+We are all used to grant whitespace to each paragraph by pressing RETURN, even
+if a single time. Well, don't. Use the space-before/after-paragraph feature. It
+may sound strange when you have your text altogether at first glance but when
+you apply this feature, the results will be shiny and it will save you a lot of
+time!
+
+Default styling
+---------------
+
+You should be using this all the time for two major reasons:
+
+* You get an instant look and feel of what your document will look like. In my
+ modest opinion, the default styles on any word processor look just fine.
+* You might now know this but when you apply the default styles available, you
+ automatically build a semantic structure of your document. This means you can
+ create a table of contents or a document outline with zero effort! This is
+ extremely useful when exporting to PDF because it promotes accessibility and
+ usability.
+
+You can obviously change the style the way you want but you should change the
+style and not the paragraph using that style. If you change the style you
+ensuring that every single paragraph is affected and the document looks
+consistent.
+
+Templates
+---------
+
+It's amazing how powerful this tool can be. Just define the styles in a blank
+document - you can even put some text with the various styles to be used - and
+save it as a template. Both Microsoft Word and Apple Pages have this feature.
+This tool is absolutely power-saving when more than one person writes the same
+document.
+
+Should you use these suggestions I presented and you will have your time saved
+for sure.