Hi :) I thought it might be good for the documentation team to know about this thread. Templates are not so easy in Impress apparently and the guides don't seem to be helping at the moment.
A bug-report has been filed but i was wondering if it would be good to have the work-around in the Impress Guide fro this branch. Messy Christmar everyone! Regards from Tom :) On 23 December 2014 at 14:53, Kevin O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian, thank you, that worked, and I doubt I would have thought of it > any time soon. But I have gone over the Impress Guide and I don't see > this in there. I am using the IG4.2, which I believe is the latest, > and the section for Working with Templates begins on Page 47, and I > just cannot find your solution in there anywhere. Are you using a > different version of the Impress Guide, perhaps? > > Thanks, > > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Brian Barker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > At 16:26 22/12/2014 -0500, Kevin O'Brien wrote: > >> > >> From what I read in the documentation I should be able to create a > >> Template, save it as a Template, and then it should appear in Available > for > >> Use on the right. When I do that it isn't working, so either I am doing > it > >> wrong or the documentation is missing something. > >> > >> What I am seeing is that when I am in Impress and go to Save as > >> Templates-->Save As Template, the window that opens only has one tab, > >> Documents, and not the four tabs I am used to seeing (Documents, > >> Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings). If I go to > File-->New-->Templates in > >> Impress I see all four tabs, but Templates I saved in the Documents tab > do > >> not appear. > >> > >> So, am I reading the documentation wrong? Or is something wrong here? > This > >> is LO 4.3 on Windows 7. I'll see what I get when I do it on a Linux box. > > > > > > Chapter 2 of the Impress Guide say that you won't see the relevant > template > > folder if it is empty. Catch-22, eh?! > > > > Here's what it suggests you do: > > > > Saving templates to a hidden folder > > This procedure is for a LibreOffice installation that has yet to have any > > user created or imported templates for use in Impress. Any empty template > > folders are hidden in the Template Manager and a work-around is > necessary to > > save the first template into the My Templates folder. > > 1) Go to File > Save As Template on the main menu bar to open the > Template > > Manager dialog. By default the Template Manager opens at the Documents > page. > > 2) Double click on the MediaWiki folder to select it and activate the > Save > > icon, then click the Save icon. > > 3) Specify the template name in the pop-up dialog and click Accept. The > > template is saved into the MediaWiki folder. This appears in the > MediaWiki > > folder on the dialog page of the file type being saved, which is > > Presentations. > > 4) Close the Template Manager dialog. > > 5) Go to File > New > Templates on the main menu bar to open the Template > > Manager dialog again. > > Note: Closing and opening the Template Manager is necessary so that the > > following steps can be carried out to move your template into the My > > Templates folder. > > 6) Select the Presentations tab to open the dialog page for presentations > > (Figure 32). > > 7) Double-click the MediaWiki folder to open it. > > 8) Select the template you have just added and the file handling controls > > are displayed. > > 9) Click the Move to folder icon and select My Templates from the drop > list > > that appears. Your template will be moved from the MediaWiki folder to > the > > My Templates > > folder. > > 10) Close the Template Manager dialog. > > > > I trust this helps. > > > > Brian Barker > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > > > -- > Kevin B. O'Brien > [email protected] > http://google.me/+kevinobrien > Facebook is Evil. Cancel your account. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
