Editing a Template

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Writer Guide

Chapter 10: Working With Templates

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• Introduction
• Using a Template to Create a Document
• Creating a Template
  • Creating a Template from a Document
  • Creating a Template Using a Wizard
• Editing a Template
  • Updating a Document from a Changed Template
• Adding Templates with Extension Manager
• Setting a Default Template
  • Setting a Custom Template as the Default
  • Resetting Writer’s Default Template as the Default
• Associating a Document with a Different Template
• Organizing Templates
  • Creating a Template folder
  • Deleting a Template Folder
  • Moving a Template
  • Deleting a Template
  • Importing a Template
  • Exporting a Template

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Editing a Template

You can edit a template’s styles and content, and then, if you wish, you can reapply the template’s styles to documents that were created from that template. (Note that you can only reapply styles. You cannot reapply content, except for content in headers and footers.)

To edit a template:

1. From the main menu, choose File → Templates → Organize. The Template Management dialog box opens (see Figure 4).
2. In the box on the left, double-click the folder containing the template that you want to edit. A list of all the templates contained in that folder appears underneath the folder name.
3. Select the template that you want to edit.
4. Click the {[button|Commands}} button and choose Edit from the drop-down menu.
5. Edit the template just as you would any other document. To save your changes, choose File → Save from the main menu.

Figure 4: Template management dialog box