Getting to Sleep before Dawn with Document Styles

When I decided to learn about computers, I started with MS Word and was captured by the power and ease of styles and the related automatic tables of contents. 

It may be the difference between sleeping and not. 

I have one client whom I often work with late into the night. We were about 6 drafts in at 3 am and we had yet to build a table of contents and the formatting was a little rough.  He said I was done and he’d get up early and take care of the table in the morning before calendar. 

I knew that he was going to manually format and assemble a TOC.  I don’t know how long that would have taken him, but I knew it would take me about 3 minutes. I told him not to worry about it and the polished memo would be in his inbox in the morning. It was, and I went to bed about 5 minutes later. 

As I stated in, “Paperless Office, Inverted Learning Curves, and Indexed Search”: 

“The real benefits accrue by working with digital documents and they multiply and compound rapidly to open up the full range of possibilities computers enable which extends well beyond work in the office.” And “This happens because most of the best stuff computers have to offer, they give up very quickly and to great effect.”

Documents styles is one of those things.

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