{"id":37,"date":"2005-09-25T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/?p=37"},"modified":"2005-10-26T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T01:30:09","slug":"the-dylanchordscom-guide-how-to-use-word-without-hurting-heiners-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/2005\/09\/the-dylanchordscom-guide-how-to-use-word-without-hurting-heiners-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"The dylanchords.com guide: “How to use Word without hurting Heiner’s eyes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon general request<\/a>, here’s my guide to proper use of MS Word:<\/p>\n

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  1. Never ever <\/em>use direct formatting.<\/li>\n
  2. That means: never ever <\/em>click on any of the buttons in the formatting toolbar<\/li>\n
  3. . . . which means that you might as well disable that toolbar altogether (right-click in the toolbar area and uncheck “Formatting”)<\/li>\n
  4. You are allowed to keep it there for two reasons:\n
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    1. To control what is going on in the document, and<\/li>\n
    2. to click on the “Styles” button (the one with the two “A”s), which opens the “Styles” sidebar, . . .<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    3. . . . which should always<\/em> be visible, and which is the only<\/em> acceptable way to format the text.<\/li>\n
    4. Create styles for the types of text that you are going to use, and\/or modify the existing styles to suit your desires.<\/li>\n
    5. These desires should under no circumstance<\/em> include using Times New Roman or Arial, which are Microsoft’s rip-offs of slightly more acceptable typefaces; but which in themselves are objectively ugly; and which give a discerning reader the impression that you don’t care how your document looks. Good alternatives are Garamond (which, in Microsoft’s version, is not a Garamond at all but a Jannon, but it comes close enough), Gentium<\/a>, a nice, free unicode font (a combination of three huge advantages which are rarely seen together), or for that matter Book Antiqua, which is also a rip-off, but of a nice <\/em>typeface: Hermann Zapf’s Palatino<\/li>\n
    6. Use templates:\n
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      • In an empty document, set up all the different styles that you think you will be using (plain text, indented text, blockquotes, headings, etc.), and save the document, not as a Word Document, but a Word Template (choose it in the drop-down list below the field for the file name).<\/li>\n
      • Choose New document from template from the Files menu and select your template.<\/li>\n
      • Lo and behold! All your styles are there.<\/li>\n
      • You can apply your new template to any document through the Functions > Templates menu. Check the box with “update styles automatically”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Upon general request, here’s my guide to proper use of MS Word: Never ever use direct formatting. That means: never ever click on any of the buttons in the formatting toolbar . . . which means that you might as well disable that toolbar altogether (right-click in the toolbar area and uncheck “Formatting”) You are allowed to keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-software","category-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}