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
