On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 7:05 PM, PeeWee <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> Cannot understand what the problem is about saving your own presentation >>> templates in Impress. >>> >>> The procedure in the Impress Guide under the heading “Creating your own >>> templates” on Page 49 works perfectly. >> >> The problem is that when you go to save a presentation as a template, >> there is only one tab (Documents) visible in the Template Manager, >> UNLESS the user has already saved (or moved) a template into another >> tab. But many people expect to see several tabs like you see when >> creating a presentation from a saved template, and it's not obvious >> how to put a newly-saved template under another tab. It was correctly >> described in the Impress Guide v4.0, from which Brian Barker quoted in >> an earlier note in this thread, but that section is not in the v4.2 >> Impress Guide... nor does it appear to be in another of the other >> books. >> >> This situation is the same for all components. I am reviewing Chapter >> 11 of the Draw 4.3 Guide, and I noticed that Figure 7 does not >> correspond to what I see on any platform (Linux Mint, Windows 8.1, OS >> X Yosemite) when saving as a template; it is what I see when starting >> to create a new presentation from a template. Otherwise, the info is >> not wrong, but it is incomplete and confusing. It talks about folders, >> but not about the tabs at the top. >> >> I am doing some other editing on this chapter and will put it into >> Feedback later today, for your consideration. >> >> If you see all four tabs when doing File > Templates > Save as >> Template, well, hm, I don't know what's going on. Weird. >> >> --Jean > > I was wrong when I wrote, > "it's not obvious how to put a newly-saved template under another tab. > It was correctly described in the Impress Guide v4.0, from which Brian > Barker quoted in an earlier note in this thread," > > Now I see that section talks about how to show hidden FOLDERS, not > hidden TABS. Sorry. But the main problem stands: people expect to see > the four tabs at the top. I must play around with this a bit more. > > --Jean
Ah, now I see what's going on. No matter where you save a Draw (or Impress, or Calc) template, it will show up under the correct tab when creating a doc from the template. Users can create a separate folder for Presentations or Drawings if they wish, but it makes no difference to the display when they go to create a new file from the template. So it works very easily but is non-obvious. I think just a few words of explanation would take care of this. Apologies for the noise in my earlier notes on this thread. This statement from one of my earlier notes is also wrong: "UNLESS the user has already saved (or moved) a template into another tab." My confusion was over tabs and folders, and not testing enough before posting. --Jean -- 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
