On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 12:07 +0000, Mike Scott wrote:
> On 24/01/11 09:54, James Wilde wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 24, 2011, at 09:56 , Mike Scott wrote:
> >
> >> On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote:
> >>> OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1
> >>>
> >>> I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term.
> >>>
> >>> There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start up in a chosen
> >>> application, in my case Writer, and with a default document template. I
> >>> made that change but forgot to save the thread in my little folder of
> >>> useful OOo tips. Now I want to change the template which is used at
> >>> startup. I don't have one called simply Default which I could copy my
> >>> chosen template over.
> >>>
> >>> How do I do this? I promise to save the tip this time.
> >>
> >> This, I /think/:
> >>
> >> File | New | Templates and Documents
> >> Organise
> >>
> >> Navigate to the one you want to use
> >>
> >> Commands | Set as Default Template
> >>
> > Good try, Mike, but no cigar. When OOo starts it's still the original
> > document that comes up. I recognize it since it has a header, and the one
> > I want to use and selected as default does not.
>
> No great loss there, I don't smoke :-)
>
> But I /did/ try that exact recipe as I wrote the reply. And it /did/
> work - instead of a blank document, File | New gave my letterhead
> template after I'd done that. I must admit I assumed that starting
> Writer did an implicit 'File|New'. But checking, it does behave that
> way, at least for me (ubuntu 10.04/OOo3.2.0 from the ub repositories)
>
> (I do see there's a File|Templates menu item btw, shortcuts some of the
> above)
>
>
>
I use OOo from the OOo website (OOo 3.3.0 RC10 using DEB [Ubuntu]).
I selected a new default template as Mike described. I closed OOo. Then
I double clicked swriter to start OOo in Writer. When it opened, it was
using the template that I had chosen as default.
Not sure James what steps you are taking that are different from
what Mike and I are doing concerning selecting a template as the Default
template. I think this is the area with some problems.
Dan
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