How To Modify A Default Template For Openoffice

You lot tin edit a template's styles and content, and and then, if you lot wish, you can reapply the template's styles to documents that were created from that template. (Notation that you can only reapply styles. You cannot reapply content.)

To edit a template:

From the main bill of fare, cull File → Templates → Organize . The Template Direction dialog opens.
In the box on the left, double-click the folder that contains the template that yous want to edit. A listing of all the templates contained in that folder appears underneath the folder name.
Click the template that you want to edit.
Click the Commands push button.
From the driblet-downwardly menu, cull Edit. The Template Direction dialog closes and the selected template opens.
Edit the template just every bit y'all would whatever other document. To salvage your changes, choose File → Save from the main menu.

Template Management dialog.

The next time that you lot open a certificate that was created from the changed template, the following message appears.

Apply electric current styles message.

Click Yeah to utilize the template's changed styles to the certificate. Click No if you do not want to utilise the template's changed styles to the document. Whichever option yous choose, the bulletin box closes and the certificate opens in Apache OpenOffice.

If y'all choose No in the message box shown to a higher place, that bulletin will non appear once again the next time you open the certificate after irresolute the template it is based on. You will not get another run a risk to update the styles from the template, although you can use the macro given in the Annotation beneath to re-enable this feature.

To re-enable updating from a template:

1. Use Tools → Macros → Organize Macros → OpenOffice Bones . Select the certificate from the list, click the +, and select Standard. If Standard has a + beside information technology, click that and select a module.
2. Name the macro. For example, you could telephone call it FixDocument. If the Edit push is active, click information technology. If the Edit push is not active, click New , type a module name in the pop-up dialog, and click OK .
3. In the Basic window, enter the following:

                      Sub                      FixDocument   TemplateName                      =                      ThisComponent.DocumentInfo.Template                      if                      TemplateName <>                      ""                      so                      ThisComponent.DocumentInfo.Template                      =                      TemplateName                      finish                      if                      End                      Sub