2008/5/5 James Elliott - WA Rural Computers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Brian > > Thanks for the detailed instructions on "formatting sections" of a document > - it worked and it was incredibly easy to do. > > As someone premised, when I go out of that document, I lose the new page > style I created. I went into Templates with a view to creating a permanent > page style called "Landscape" - I was going to Edit the Default page > template and save the Edited version under the name: "Landscape", but I > couldn't find the Default style. > > If I follow the instructions in the Help files, I can create a new template > called "Landscape", but when I do as you taught me, and tyr to use a Manual > Break ro insert a landscape next page, "Landscapez" simply isn't there in > the list of Templates - in fact, no of MY Templates are on the list, just > Default, Untitled, and a few others I am not familiar with. > > What i want to do is to create a new template which will appear on the list > when I click on Style in the Insert Break dialogue box. > > Kind regards, James >
Hello James, *, Just to wrap up this thread: If you use landscape pages frequently it makes sense to include this page style in the default template so that it is available in all the new documents you create. This is one of the issues already mentioned by Kirill so the following instructions may not be needed in the future versions of OOo. In this how-to you will replace the hard-coded Writer template with your own template and make it the default template. 1) open a new document 2) create the landscape page style 3) (optional) change whatever else you want, default para style, margins of the default page style etc... 4) File > Templates > Save... 5) give a memorable name to the template (e.g. MyDefault) and press OK Note: now the template is available for use by selecting File > New > Templates and Documents, select My Templates and then your template. With the next steps we will make MyDefault the default template 6) Open a new document then follow steps 4) and 5) above giving the template a name such as "OOoWriter default". This step is not needed but it makes it very easy to revert to the in built template **for the current version of OOo** if you so wish. 7) File > Templates > Organize. Select My Templates, then MyDefault. 8) click on the Command button to open a menu where you will select Set As Default Template. Done. Cheers, Michele :-D --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
