Comment 40 for bug 1990673

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In , F-thaler (f-thaler) wrote :

Speaking of my own experience, when trying to teach people how to properly format their documents, the biggest issue we face is this "Default Paragraph Style".
Due to improper defaults, most of their past documents happen to mix "Default Paragraph Style" and "Text Body".

Thus, just to have nice, centralized control over how their document looks, they are forced to learn multiple features of LibreOffice all at once:
• Text-Styles themselves, which can be complicated enough
• The fact that "Default Paragraph Style" exists and was forced upon them, but should not be used
• The styles-portion of Find and Replace (Ctrl+H), to get rid of all "Default Paragraph Style"s and turn them into "Text Body"
• Templates, to fix the first line of their future documents being "Default Paragraph Style"

This makes the learning curve WAY more complicated than it needs to be. It worsens the user-experience.
It saddens me to see many non-tech-savvy users return to MS Office whenever they can; partially due to default behaviors like this one.