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Although many important settings can be changed in the Options

dialog (see Chapter 2), for example default fonts and page size, more

advanced settings (such as page margins) can only be changed by

replacing the default template with a new one.

Resetting the default template

To re-enable OOo’s Default template for a document type as the

default:

1) In the Template Management dialog, click any folder in the box on

the left.

2) Click the Commands button and choose Reset Default

Template from the drop-down menu.

The next time that you create a document by choosing File > New, the

document will be created from OOo’s Default template for that

document type.

Associating a document with a different

template

At times you might want to associate a document with a different

template, or perhaps you’re working with a document that did not start

from a template.

One of the major advantages of using templates is the ease of updating

styles in more than one document, as described on page 73. If you

update styles by loading a new set of styles from a different template

(as described on page 67), 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 4 (Getting Started with

Writer) 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.

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