At 08:07 16/04/2008 +1000, Neil Jansons wrote:
Dave Barton wrote:
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Date: Tue 15 Apr 2008 19:20:31 EST
There appears to be a way to change the default fonts and size of
fonts for new documents under
Tools | Options | OpenOffice.org Writer | Basic Fonts (Western)
However anything set here appears to be largely ignored even if
"Current document only" is not ticked.
Another way that is somewhat more successful is to create a
default document and then save it as a template
File | Templates | Save | My Templates and give the new template a
name and click OK.
Then make that template the default template
File | Templates | Organise | select the template under My
Templates | Commands | Set as default template
However that only works when you create a new file under File |
New | Text Document
Or by simply starting Writer (swriter.exe) from a shortcut/icon.
If you go to Windows Explorer (obviously only under Windows - I
have no idea what the equivalent of this is on Linux or Mac)
and go to File | New | OpenDocument Text to create a new document
it will not only ignore any settings under Tools | Options | etc
but will also ignore any default templates.
This would appear to be a significant oversight.
Neil
This is an extremely unusual and cumbersome method of creating a
new document and not one that many users would normally employ, but
the document generated by this method does revert to the original
Writer defaults, not to the user defined default template.
I don't have time to pull up the source code and find out how the
document is being generated from the Explorer menu. So I would
suggest you submit an issue to http://qa.openoffice.org
Sorry I can't be of more help.
Dave
Hi Dave
I am not sure on what research you base the statement "This is an
extremely unusual and cumbersome method of creating a new document
and not one that many users would normally employ" but it is
certainly a way that I use at times and don't find cumbersome.
Regardless of the way the document is created it should be consistent.
Neil
For what it's worth (and this is not a flame), I agree that this
method of creating new document files is in no way cumbersome: in
fact, it is particularly convenient. And I very much doubt whether
it is at all unusual. Indeed, for those users who clearly find
locating the program menu entries in Windows in order to start
OpenOffice a challenge, I suspect that this would be their standard
way of creating a new document. They would open My Computer, browse
to the appropriate folder, and either double-click an existing
document file or else create a new one first by this technique,
rename it suitably, and then double-click that.
Brian Barker
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