Saving changes to default paragraph and page styles

dgermann · OOo Advocate Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 215

Hi--

Finally figured out how to make changes to the page size and font and paragraph settings. That only took me about 2 1/2 hours!

I have tried saving it as the template called default. I have clicked update style in stylist.

Yet when I load a new document, it comes up with the old margins and font and paragraph styles!

How do I get the changes to stick, so I have a reliable document format to come up each time I open the program and each time I ask for a new document.

This is frustrating! Confused

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:-Doug.

Curtz · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 11:44 pm Post subject:

That is not how to do it! I am in a hurry now, but look in the online help, it is explained there!

dgermann · OOo Advocate Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 215

Curtz--

Thanks! Hope you can get back to me on this, for I am lost. Confused

I have spent literally hours looking through the online help, and either I am dense or it is. Sad

Thanks, Curtz!
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lhu · General User Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Location: USA

Doug:

I believe you're over thinking the task. Create your writer doc w/ style elements defined and save as a oo template. The save location [windows] sb Progs->OO->user->template.
Next, open menu [ File->Templates->organize] . double click the 'default' folder to view the template file you saved. Click once to select that file and then click the command drop menu to the right. Find the 'set as default template' item near the bottom of menu. Select.
Note the menu option 'reset default template' is the last item on command menu. [for future use] Task completed.

Lee Wink

Curtz · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:45 am Post subject:

In the online help, search for "default - documents" in the index.

Guest · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 7:40 pm Post subject:

Lee--

Thanks!

I was able to get much the same result, finally, by going to File=>templates=>Save--but I have no idea how I stumbled on that one.

I will try your method for the next one I do.

Curtz--

I think I found that this evening, too, and it worked the first time I tried it, and not the next 17 or so! Until I stumbled upon what I did above.

Thank you both. You have given me courage to try some more.

dgermann · OOo Advocate Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 215

Sorry folks, that was me who posted that last one--I had logged in, but somehow the login got lost!
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cwchia · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject:

cwchia · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject:

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