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Facility 4 - Lesson. 8 “MS Word for large and complex texts. Expert Yulia Potemkina (Category Writing)

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Overload at work led to the fact that I dropped out of the course of writing a book, but now decided to catch up with him. I started with the eighth lesson from Julia about MS Word and its capabilities. Something about this harvester. (MS Word) I'm scared. (Possibly a bunch of customization options)I usually use Google Docs online. But the Word lesson was interesting. By the way, previous posts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. The main ideas I learned from the lesson are:

Word is great for working with large and complex texts. Word is like a complex IDE. (IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains) For an experienced developer, but only for an experienced writer or editor Word can be customized to work in it was natural. Settings may vary depending on the target mode - writing text vs editing it

  • Backups are everything - Word makes auto saves, but it would be good to make them yourself. (protect ~~coder~~ bug) It is important to use styles correctly - this is important not only for the visual, but also for further text editing.
  • It is important not to bother too much with text formatting, linear indentations, hyphens and so on - all this when editing will go Something this work with styles and in-place twisting of the visual resembles the web with its CSS (cascading style sheets) and display settings directly in HTML It is important to be able to search and replace the document. There are special elements in the text that can be useful: footnotes, formulas, tables and illustrations. If the book is supposed to be given to a professional printer, then these elements can disperse if made head-on. Word allows you to build a review process, comments and suggestions for editing right in the document. This is an asynchronous collaborative format of work. It’s a bit like Google Docs, but it’s right there online and with help. CRDT (Conflict-free replicated data type):)
  • Well, finally, it is worth saying that in the writing mode of the book you need to make the interface and fonts less distract from the writing itself, so that the minimum interface and non-fancy fonts help us:)

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