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Writing Templates
Hello, I was wondering, what are the best templates for general writing, such as resumes, biographies, articles, poetry and things of that nature? I really appreciate your help on this!
Best,
Dorianne
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Re: Writing Templates
Posted by James Plante <ji...@me.com>.
Jonathon,
Of course it depends on what the template does. But at some point, it stops being a template and becomes a specialized program. Project management is a good example, too. Just as some people try to keep all the books of a small (or even a medium) business in Excel when they should be using a dedicated database and a good double-entry bookkeeping system like e.g. GnuCash, I’m sure some will try to manage a project with inappropriate software too.
And I understand and appreciate your reference to high-priced templates. I’ve constructed a template to duplicate a two-page government form that self-calculates and shows/hides conditional text. It was tedious to construct, and required a bunch of sanding and polishing before it was ready to use. Then the government changed the !$@^&*&! form to a six-pager. I revised it with a modest amount of Anglo-Saxon expressions that I learned from early exposure to Chaucer. Most users of AOO can’t do that (or perhaps, "are smart enough *not* to do that” would be a better way to put it.)
My reply referred to those quickie tasks, like a personal or business letter; an invoice; an article for the local paper; or maybe a personal essay. A template helps you get started quickly before your lose that spark of inspiration. It should also provide enough final polish that it can be submitted for publication and subsequently saved in the archive of rejected articles….errr…personal essays. For these, “make your own” is the way I’d go. I would also advise saving the .ott that you create into AOO’s template system (File -> Templates -> Save…), and then save a copy in a separate folder (Save as… [ODF Text Document Template (.ott)]) so you can tinker with it and not mess up your primary template.
Jim
> On Nov 3, 2016, at 2:09 AM, toki <to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/11/2016 18:58, James Plante wrote:
>
>> My advice is to make your own.
>
> That really depends upon what the template does.
>
> The typical MSO Template with an MSRP in the US$400 price range, whilst
> creatable by power users, is usually both awkward and tedious to
> construct. Those in the US$10,000 price range are usually beyond the
> territory occupied by power users. Between those two price points,
> things are iffy, but tend towards requiring specialists to construct,
> and power users to utilize.
>
> On the flipside, it is much easier to download templates for Project
> Management, than it is to construct them from scratch.
>
> jonathon
>
>
>
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Re: Writing Templates
Posted by toki <to...@gmail.com>.
On 02/11/2016 18:58, James Plante wrote:
> My advice is to make your own.
That really depends upon what the template does.
The typical MSO Template with an MSRP in the US$400 price range, whilst
creatable by power users, is usually both awkward and tedious to
construct. Those in the US$10,000 price range are usually beyond the
territory occupied by power users. Between those two price points,
things are iffy, but tend towards requiring specialists to construct,
and power users to utilize.
On the flipside, it is much easier to download templates for Project
Management, than it is to construct them from scratch.
jonathon
Re: Writing Templates
Posted by James Plante <ji...@me.com>.
Tracey,
My advice is to make your own. Find a resumé that looks good to you, and duplicate it. Save it as Resume.ott.
Articles’ formats are going to depend on the guidelines of whoever publishes them. Obtain a format example, and duplicate it.
Poetry? Pretty much open; you can get away with just about anything in the name of artistic license. So make a template that is pleasing to you.
I didn’t know there was any specific format for a biography. Did you mean “bibliography” by chance?
If so, those are pretty much governed by whatever publisher is going to handle the main article. Some want Chicago Manual of Style, others Turabian, and it can vary all over the spectrum. Again, create your own .ott’s for the ones you may frequently use.
Jim
> On Nov 2, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Tracey Salgado <go...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I was wondering, what are the best templates for general writing, such as resumes, biographies, articles, poetry and things of that nature? I really appreciate your help on this!
> Best,
> Dorianne
>
> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10
>
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