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What is a template?
A
template
is a model that you use to create other documents. For
example, you can create a template for business reports that has your
company’s logo on the first page. New documents created from this
template will all have your company’s logo on the first page.
Templates can contain anything that regular documents can contain,
such as text, graphics, a set of styles, and user-specific setup
information such as measurement units, language, the default printer,
and toolbar and menu customization.
All documents in OpenOffice.org (OOo) are based on templates. You
can create a specific template for any document type (text,
spreadsheet, drawing, presentation). If you do not specify a template
when you start a new document, then the document is based on the
default template for that type of document. If you have not specified a
default template, OOo uses the blank template for that type of
document that is installed with OOo. See “Setting a default template”
on page 74 for more information.
What are styles?
A
style
is a set of formats that you can apply to selected pages, text,
frames, and other elements in your document to quickly change their
appearance. When you apply a style, you apply a whole group of
formats at the same time.
Many people manually format paragraphs, words, tables, page layouts,
and other parts of their documents without paying any attention to
styles. They are used to writing documents according to
physical
attributes. For example, you might specify the font family, font size,
and any formatting such as bold or italic.
Styles are
logical
attributes. Using styles means that you stop saying
“font size 14pt, Times New Roman, bold, centered”, and you start
saying “Title” because you have defined the “Title” style to have those
characteristics. In other words, styles means that you shift the
emphasis from what the text (or page, or other element) looks like, to
what the text
is
.
Styles help improve consistency in a document. They also make major
formatting changes easy. For example, you may decide to change the
indentation of all paragraphs, or change the font of all titles. For a long
document, this simple task can be prohibitive. Styles make the task
easy.
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