Thanks Tom. I had in mind to get to documentation, but you saved me the trouble.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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