Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi :) > I just click on the save button or on; > > File - Save As > > Job done.
To clarify ... I have a spreadsheet of 5 tabs called 'word-count-antonine.ods' which I would like to use as a word-count template for future books that I intend to write. WCA starts at Saturday July 28 2018 with initial word counts which are then updated manually whenever I do more writing. I would like to have this as a template with blank cells except they have kept the functions from the original spreadsheet, so that I can start with a new date and work onwards from there and show exactly the same information as in my original spreadsheet, but the new one is now named for another project. I have saved the WCA spreadsheet as a template, but it is still showing exactly the same information in each cell as the original one was, whereas I was hoping that the functions would remain but the cells appear blank. Does my original question make sense now please? Thanks Sharon. > I'm not sure what the problem is. Is it that someone using Microsoft Office > can't see the file you have created? Microsoft is usually blind and unable > to cope with standards, even 'standards' of it's own devising. Using > LibreOffice, > Google-docs, OpenOffice or any other office program you should be able to > easily see the file you created. > > With the File - Save As route a dialogue box pops up. Near the bottom of the > dialogue-box, just above it's own Save button, there is an option to choose > format. By default it says "All formats" but actually just saves it in native > .Ods format. Amongst the other formats it offers are the unreliable, ever > changing Microsoft formats such as .Xlsx and their older format .Xls. There > is also a format specifically for proper Templates, and an equivalent for > Microsoft > Office templates. > > My old boss used to talk about making a template but he really meant just a > normal file, in an MS format, that he would then overwrite and forget to keep > an unfilled copy of anywhere. Having an actual proper template would confuse > him > and he'd delete it. > > In much the same way he kept using the term "double entry" to mean a mistake > where someone had entered the same thing twice instead of using it the way > accountants and bookkeepers have been using it for the last several hundred > years. > Presumably he thought an advert for a "double-entry bookkeeper" was because > companies were really keen to employ someone who made a LOT of mistakes! > > If you really mean a proper template then Chapter 3 of the "Getting Started > Guide"; > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications > (or scroll down further to Chapter 4 of the "Calc Guide") might help. > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/8/83/GS6003-StylesAndTemplates.pdf > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/e8/CG4104-StylesAndTemplates.pdf > > There are pre-made templates at; > https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates > which you can adapt and use, or just use as they are, for free. > > Here's an extremely brief bit of help about templates; > https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Creating_a_Document_Template > but it's probably better to go with one (or both) of the chapters above > because they have a lot more information to skim through. > > Good luck and many regards from > a Tom :) > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 17:52, Sharon Kimble <boudic...@skimble.plus.com> > wrote: > > I have a question which I can't find an answer to, how can I save a calc > spreadsheet as a template with all cells being blank, but still retaining the > functions within it please? > > Thanks > Sharon. > -- -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 9.8, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 26.1.91, org 9.2.1 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
