On 18 Dec 2007 at 10:39, Craig White wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 10:29 +0530, Tehmurasp Ghyara wrote:
> > Naomi Kramer wrote:
> > > Yes, BUT.
> > >
> > > The templates do work fine, OK? But if you open a document, and OOo
> > > tells you that the template has changed, would you like to update the
> > > styles? and you say no... the document is forever divorced from the
> > > template. People - if I'm wrong about this, if there's an easy fix, DEAR
> > > GOD TELL ME!
> >
> > No, you're not wrong about this. And yes, there's a fix. Download and
> > install the Template Changer extension
> > (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/templatechanger)
> >
> > This will add a new option to the template sub-menu:
> > Files->Template->Assign New... which you can use to associate the
> > existing document with another template.
> ----
> AWESOME - thanks so much
This was a new one on me: I'd thought a template was a template was a
template..... and hadn't found the 'association' stuff.
So when creating a template,
file | save as .... and then picking .ott for a template
gives a /very/different effect from
file | templates | save....
and there's nothing to warn the hapless user :-{
I can't find anything in the help file that discusses the difference -
or indeed to suggest that the second approach gives a 'sticky'
template. (I finally found a short note at
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/24/openofficewrite
r.html
so it's obviously been around a while.)
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