Why? Because we can do fancy stuff with this information later. Let’s call it “Text formatting with Writer” 🙂 We click “File” – “Properties” – “Description”. No, this time we’re not going to do it this way.įirst of all, we want to give our document a title. So how do we start? Hmm… we open Writer and type… STOP. Well, surprise, it’s 2004, it does not have to be this way 🙂

I hated having to look through my entire document when I changed something, just because everything after my change could be formatted badly again.

I hated editing all the headings, losing track if they were 12 or 13 points, bold, underlined or whatever.

I hated adding a table of content after I was done with my text, hand-editing all the page numbers into it.

I was struggling throughout my academical career with the same issues over and over: for all the small documents, up to, let’s say 20 pages or so. This article is to a great extent based on what Christoph wrote in his emails to me.īasically, whenever I wrote something with a text processor in the last decade, I just fired it up, wrote the title, selected the title with the mouse, made it 16 points large and bold, hit enter 2 times, set the text to 12 points and normal weight and started off. This is not really osnews-typical stuff, but I think that there are some people here who can benefit greatly from this article, just as I did. So I decided to write an article about text formatting. Now that I am done with my diploma, I feel that all this knowledge should not go to waste. I have worked with text processors since 1995 now and even though I have never been interested in the features of Microsoft Word and Writer, I thought that I, at least, knew something about them. A few days and emails later, my diploma was a lot easier to work with. I emailed back, asking some innocent questions and basically got overwhelmed by his long and detailed responses. O.K., it probably wasn’t THAT difficult because I just used no automatic formatting at all, still I just couldn’t believe that he could tell all that with nothing more than a simple screenshot. He specified various mistakes and, to my amazement, he was right on every single issue he mentioned.

I am a moron, I admit it… So, the funny thing was, when that article went live, I got an email from a crazy german who told me that I was not formatting my diploma correctly. So, just because I wanted to show off a little, I loaded my diploma thesis, which was then already 130 pages long and took the screenie.

I merely wanted to show that in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article.

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