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with Styles). If you update styles by loading a new set of styles from a

different template (as described in Chapter 7), the document has no

association with the template from which the styles were loaded—so

you cannot use this method. What you need to do is associate the

document with the different template.

You can do this in two ways. In both cases, for best results the names

of styles should be the same in the existing document and the new

template. If they are not, you will need to use Search and Replace to

replace old styles with new ones. See Chapter 3 (Working with Text)

for more about replacing styles using Search and Replace.

Method 1

This method includes any graphics and wording (such as legal notices)

that exists in the new template, as well as including styles. If you don’t

want this material, you need to delete it.

1) Use File > New > Templates and Documents. Choose the

template you want. If the template has unwanted text or graphics

in it, delete them.

2) Open the document you want to change. (It opens in a new

window.) Press

Control+A

to select everything in the document.

Paste into the blank document created in step 1.

3) Update the table of contents, if there is one. Save the file.

Method 2

This method does not include any graphics or text from the new

template; it simply includes styles from the new template and

establishes an association between the template and the document.

1) Download the Template Changer extension from

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ and install it as

described on page 334.

2) Close and reopen OpenOffice.org. Now the File > Templates

menu has two new choices:

Assign Template (current document)

and

Assign Template (folder)

3) Open the document whose template you want to change. Choose

File > Templates > Assign Template (current document).

4) In the Select Template window, find and select the required

template and click Open.

5) Save the document. If you now look in File > Properties, you will

see the new template listed at the bottom of the General page.

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