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Greg Perry, M. T. Cozzola, Jennifer Fulton

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18. Use a Template

2 Create a New Document

16 About Styles and Templates

34 Use AutoCorrect to Improve Your Typing

Templates contain formatting for complete documents. All the OpenOffice.org programs support templates. If you create a new document without specifying a template, Writer uses the

Default template style to create the empty document and to set up initial font, margin, and other formatting-related details.

The

Templates and Documents dialog box lists all the templates available to you. You often work with templates, selecting and adding them, from the

Templates and Documents dialog box.

KEY TERM

Templates and Documents dialog box An organizer of templates and styles that enables you to use and organize your templates.

18. Use a Template

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1.

Request a Template

Select

File, New, Templates and Documents to open the

Templates and Documents dialog box. Click the

Templates icon to see folders of templates such as

My Templates and

Presentations (for Impress, see

86 Use an Impress Template ).

2.

Choose a Template

Decide which template you want to work with. If you've recently installed Writer or have not added new templates, you may see only two templates:

Presentation Backgrounds and

Presentations . These are for Impress; OpenOffice.org does not include any Writer templates beyond the blank default document template.

NOTE

Writer organizes templates in folders. The name of the folder tells you the kind of templates that are inside. The

Default folder may contain multiple templates, but a blank default template is used when you select

File, New to create a new document.

TIP

Click the

Preview button atop the

Templates and Documents dialog box to see a graphic thumbnail image of a blank document created with the selected template.

3.

Create a New Template

Feel free to create your own templates! For example, you might write many memos, so you can create a memo template. Create the model for the template, including the title, recipient, and subject areas, but don't add memo-specific text. Keep the text general. Feel free to include instructions to the user of this template, such as [Type Body of Memo Here].2 Create a New Document ), personalize it with your information and formatting, and then save it as a template.

Voila your own custom template, compliments of OpenOffice.org!

When you select

File, Templates, Save , Writer opens the

Templates dialog box, where you can assign a name and category folder for your template (such as

Default ). The next time you create a new document from a template, your new template will appear in the list.