Before going into more depth issues, I refuse to give four more strokes on word processors and their use in archeology. What I'm here with particular reference to the OpenOffice (although it serves well for other processors).
is because I think they often do not know well all the possibilities, an issue that directly affects performance. I assure you familiar with the handling of a word processor (or any program ) is very useful.
To reach this understanding, there are basically three ways: do a course (recommended), the method RTFM (requires self-discipline) or mess around trying things one by one (for the lawless.) Everyone has their preferred way, as in everything. But most important is to choose one.
There are two keys that seem particularly undervalued in the use of the processors (for what I have observed): templates and styles.
Templates are a special type of paper, which once saved serve as a template for new documents. When creating a new document based on a template, you copy all the features of the original template (styles, fonts, headers, page numbering, margins, text, etc), but the document should be stored with a new name so that the template is always conserved original. In OpenOffice you can create templates not only for the processor, but also to other types of documents. A simple example of a template is a template letter or bill with the company logo in the header, an automatic date field, etc.. Other useful templates models are models of memory, or project report, including all those sections that we tend to repeat on every job. For example, the method of excavation, or the director of intervention and technical equipment, etc. So, you know: that you can avoid making the project the previous year and start to delete the text to get an empty model.
The second topic is abused styles. A style is a pre-formatted text, which affects the type and font size, spacing, alignment, characteristics. The usual style is the "normal" but then there are styles for footers, headers, the whole hierarchy of titles, etc.. When we modify the definition of a style in a document, all text is assigned that style are automatically updated to the new format.
A common example of misuse (or desconomiento) of styles is here that you will sound: select the text, change the font to your liking, and when we continue to write the processor returns to take us the font before! .
But for me a key theme of the styles is that if properly applied in the creation of headings and paragraphs, in the end we get a table of contents of the text automatically paged and everything. And believe me there are many other aspects that need a correct use of styles to be effective.
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