Resetting Writer’s Default template as the default
To re-enable Writer’s Default template as the default:
1) In the Template Management dialog box (Figure 294), select any folder in the
box on the left.
2) Click the Commands button and choose Reset Default Template > Text
Document from the drop-down menu.
The next time that you create a document by choosing File > New > Text
Document, the document will be created from Writer’s Default template.
Associating a document with a different template
At times you might want to associate a document with a different template, or
perhaps you’re working with a document that did not start from a template.
One of the major advantages of using templates is the ease of updating styles in more
than one document, as described in Chapter 7 (Working with Styles). If you update
styles by loading a new set of styles from a different template (as described in
Chapter 7), the document has no association with the template from which the styles
were loaded—so you cannot use this method. What you need to do is associate the
document with the different template.
You can do this in two ways. In both cases, for best results the names of styles should
be the same in the existing document and the new template. If they are not, you will
need to use Search and Replace to replace old styles with new ones. See Chapter 3
(Working with Text) for more about replacing styles using Search and Replace.
Method 1
This method includes any graphics and wording (such as legal notices) that exists in
the new template, as well as including styles. If you don’t want this material, you
need to delete it.
1) Use File > New > Templates and Documents. Choose the template you
want. A new file is created from the template. If the template has unwanted
text or graphics in it, delete them from this new file.
2) Open the document you want to change. (It opens in a new window.) Press
Control+A to select everything in the document. Paste into the blank document
created in step 1.
3) Update the table of contents, if there is one. Save the file.
Method 2
This method does not include any graphics or text from the new template, except
material in headers and footers; it simply includes styles from the new template and
establishes an association between the template and the document.
1) Download the Template Changer extension from
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ and install it as described on page
296.
2) Close and reopen OpenOffice.org. Now the File > Templates menu has two
new choices: Assign Template (current document) and Assign Template
(folder).
3) Open the document whose template you want to change. Choose File >
Templates > Assign Template (current document).
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