On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:01 PM [GMT+1=CET],
John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:23:36 -0000
"Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
I must still be doing something wrong. :(
Do you have the Quickstarter running? I have found in the past that
options etc. set while Quickstarter is running do not "stick".
No Quickstarter. I do have Qucikstarter on a Windows desktop, but I
can't get it installed on my Ubuntu amd-64 computer.
Also, starting a new blank document without first having shut down
OO may not cause OO to re-read the (changed) default template ???
I have not only shut down OOo and restarted it, I have restarted the
computer numerous times (it's a laptop). Yet the default tab settings
will not stick. All the rest of the things I changed -- default style,
font, spacing and indents, page margins, printer settings -- have all
been saved and appear in all new Writer documents. It's just the darn
default tab positions that won't stick.
The thing I keep thinking about is that the default tab positions are
set from Tools > Options > Writer > General. All the rest of the
things I saved are formatting issues. Perhaps there is something
special you have to do to get something in Options to apply to all
new documents. Or perhaps elsewhere there is something overriding
this feature in Options.
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OK. Please try this.
1. Create a blank document with all the settings, including tabs, that you
want.
2. Go to File>Templates>Save and enter a name, in the "New template" box,
for this "document" which is going to become your default template. The name
"DefaultTemplate" springs to mind ;-) I suggest you don't use any special
characters in this name, just in case. Make sure "My Templates" is
highlighted in the lower left panel (labelled "Categories"). Click OK.
3. Go to File>Templates>Organise and double click "My Templates". The folder
will expand and you should see the name you just chose within it. Select it
(the name you just chose) and click "Commands". Click "Set as Default
Template". Click "Close"
4. Now shut down OO and restart it. Do the tabs conform to what you want? If
so, hoorah. If not, sorry you'll have to ask a real guru instead of this
fake one.
If for some reason you don't want this to become your default template, skip
step #3 and, when you want to create a document that conforms to these
settings, go to File>New>Templates and Documents and select this template
from within the My Templates folder.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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