By then it begins to make sense for most people and can be a productive tool even though things move slowly and laboriously for another 20 hours or so. It takes 40-50 hours of practice before the program begins to feel automatic and you can begin to achieve speedy results. True fluency on PageMaker takes weeks and months of practice. Save your files early and often and keep at least two current back-up files on floppy disks. PageMaker is a somewhat glitch-prone package whose large files sometimes push the capacities of computer and printer memory to the point of no return.
System crashes that eat files are frequent enough to warrant great care in file management.
Learn what you need to learn as you go along. Don't try to learn the whole program at once. Don't think you need to know everything to do something. Ask people for help before you dig big holes for yourself. Most people who have taken the time to learn PageMaker appreciate its complexities and are often flattered by your faith in their genius.