I realize it's more work, but material that taught the basics of _each_
of the popular apps (including MS Word) would probably be the most useful.
In fact, I imagine something CSS-driven, where you'd have a chunk of
text explaining a concept, e.g.:
Styles
Text formatting and layout can be controlled using 'Styles.'
Rather than increasing the font size, changing the font face, and
enabling 'Bold' mode on each of your document's section headers,
you can create a Style (called, e.g., "level 1 header") that you apply
to each of the section headers. Not only does this reduce the number
of steps you need to take to set text's 'look', but if you later on
decide that you want to use a different font, color, size, etc., you
only need to change it once -- in the style -- rather than throughout
the document.
Using Styles:
+ OpenOffice.org
+ Abiword
+ Microsoft Word
Each of the "+"-bulleted items is actually a collapsed chunk of text that
would then expand when the item is clicked, e.g.:
...
Using Styles:
- OpenOffice.org
Blah blah blah how to do it in OOo. Screenshots, steps, etc. go here...
+ Abiword
+ Microsoft Word
Of course, more realistically, this kind of content would need to be
maintained for different VERSIONS of each application, since everyone keeps
redesigning their UIs. :)
But... I'm daydreaming now, sorry. :)
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