What Is a Template?
- What is a Template?
- What Are Styles?
- Applying Styles
- Modifying Styles
- Creating New (Custom) Styles
- Copying and Moving Styles
- Deleting Styles
- Using a Template to Create a Document
- Creating a Template
- Adding Templates using the Extension Manager
- Editing a Template
- Changing the Template Assigned to a Document
- Setting a Default Template
- Organizing templates
- Examples of Style Use
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What Is a Template?
A template is a model document 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 and has the fonts, paragraph layout, footer content and any other details needed to meet corporate requirements. New documents created from this template will have a consistent and compliant appearance automatically.
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 Apache OpenOffice are based on templates. You can create, or download and install, as many templates as you wish, and you can specify a template as the default for each type of document (text, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation). If you do not choose a template when you start a new document, then the new document is based on the default template for that type of document. If you have not specified a default template, Apache OpenOffice uses the blank template for that type of document that is installed with Apache OpenOffice. See "Setting a default template" for more information.
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