Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-27 Thread Dave Liesse
uesday, 26 February 2013, 0:58 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer I recently installed v4.0 (v4.0.0.3, to be exact) and, of course, all the setup I finally accomplished in v3.4 is gone. My primary concern is the default style, which has reverted to .79" (2 cm) margins a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-27 Thread Tom Davies
d you manage to solve the templates issue?  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Dave Liesse >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 0:58 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer > >I recently in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-26 Thread Dave Liesse
The actual path is simply File ... New ... Templates. Certainly not an intuitive place to look for it if I want to manage existing templates! Once I found this (with your help), it was a simple task to set my new "Normal" template as the default and it seems to have worked. Many thanks! Dave

Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-26 Thread MR ZenWiz
Excellent - thank you. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Dave Frerichs wrote: > First make sure you have a copy of your standard format default document > template saved along with all your other templates. > In my Writer, I see four tabs (Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations > and Drawings)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-26 Thread MR ZenWiz
Excellent - thank you. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: > On 26/02/2013 at 18:15, MR ZenWiz wrote: > >> There does not appear to be any access to any default template. > > In LibreOffice, there is no such thing as "default template". > > You must create your own template

Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-26 Thread Dave Frerichs
First make sure you have a copy of your standard format default document template saved along with all your other templates. >>>In my Writer, I see four tabs (Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations and Drawings), and under Documents there are two widgets - one marked "My Templates" and one marke

Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-26 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 26/02/2013 at 18:15, MR ZenWiz wrote: > There does not appear to be any access to any default template. In LibreOffice, there is no such thing as "default template". You must create your own template, save it in template folders and then - using mentioned window - select it. There should be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-26 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: > On 26/02/2013 at 01:58, Dave Liesse wrote: > : >> 3. Try to make this my default template. Help says go to File ... >> Templates ... Organize, but File ... Templates doesn't exist. > > Go for File → New → From template > (or similar -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-26 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 26/02/2013 at 01:58, Dave Liesse wrote: > 1. Change the margins, then save a new template named "Normal". This is > insufficient, as it doesn't become my default template. LibreOffice does not work this way. It's MS Office that assumes that Normal template is default one. Which may cause q

[libreoffice-users] Managing Templates in Writer

2013-02-25 Thread Dave Liesse
I recently installed v4.0 (v4.0.0.3, to be exact) and, of course, all the setup I finally accomplished in v3.4 is gone. My primary concern is the default style, which has reverted to .79" (2 cm) margins as the default. Being in the US, I'd rather have defaults of 1". The help appears to be a