This is a common problem that I have heard many folks describe with tools like PowerPoint and Word Processing software. People tend to putz around with formatt

This is a common problem that I have heard many folks describe with tools like PowerPoint and Word Processing software. People tend to putz around with formatting and layout and get distracted from the actual content. This even goes back to tools as early as the hypertext tool Notecards. I remember they had a qualitative study where they found that people got really sidetracked trying to think of the name for a Notecard. I think the title of the paper with the study was "Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems". I can't seem to find an electronic copy online. Anyway, I have found a similar thing with the naming in my own programming. It is very hard to break habits with stuff like this. For example, for writing tasks, I finally had to switch to something like Notepad to write the first draft so I wouldn't be tempted to muck with formatting, spell check, grammar check, etc.