Comments on: The path to developer happiness: Beyond PDF http://ptsefton.com/2009/02/12/the-path-to-developer-happiness-beyond-pdf.htm This seems to be a workblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:41:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mia http://ptsefton.com/2009/02/12/the-path-to-developer-happiness-beyond-pdf.htm/comment-page-1#comment-197 Mia Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:45:22 +0000 http://ptsefton.com/2009/02/12/the-path-to-developer-happiness-beyond-pdf.htm#comment-197 "thousands of PhD candidates aren’t using styles to structure their thesis" - until this week I assumed everyone used styles to structure Word documents, but then I discovered that a final year PhD who'd probably been using Word since high school didn't know about styles. I guess there's no reason why she or any other non-geek would, if it's never been taught or explained, and no-one's ever used styles for anything useful around them. “thousands of PhD candidates aren’t using styles to structure their thesis” – until this week I assumed everyone used styles to structure Word documents, but then I discovered that a final year PhD who’d probably been using Word since high school didn’t know about styles.

I guess there’s no reason why she or any other non-geek would, if it’s never been taught or explained, and no-one’s ever used styles for anything useful around them.

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