Re: [libreoffice-users] Saving Impress Templates

Brian, thank you, that worked, and I doubt I would have thought of it
any time soon. But I have gone over the Impress Guide and I don't see
this in there. I am using the IG4.2, which I believe is the latest,
and the section for Working with Templates begins on Page 47, and I
just cannot find your solution in there anywhere. Are you using a
different version of the Impress Guide, perhaps?

Thanks,



On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 16:26 22/12/2014 -0500, Kevin O'Brien wrote:
> > From what I read in the documentation I should be able to create a
> > Template, save it as a Template, and then it should appear in Available for
> > Use on the right. When I do that it isn't working, so either I am doing it
> > wrong or the documentation is missing something.
> >
> > What I am seeing is that when I am in Impress and go to Save as
> > Templates-->Save As Template, the window that opens only has one tab,
> > Documents, and not the four tabs I am used to seeing (Documents,
> > Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings). If I go to File-->New-->Templates in
> > Impress I see all four tabs, but Templates I saved in the Documents tab do
> > not appear.
> >
> > So, am I reading the documentation wrong? Or is something wrong here? This
> > is LO 4.3 on Windows 7. I'll see what I get when I do it on a Linux box.
>
>
> Chapter 2 of the Impress Guide say that you won't see the relevant template
> folder if it is empty. Catch-22, eh?!
>
> Here's what it suggests you do:
>
> Saving templates to a hidden folder
> This procedure is for a LibreOffice installation that has yet to have any
> user created or imported templates for use in Impress. Any empty template
> folders are hidden in the Template Manager and a work-around is necessary to
> save the first template into the My Templates folder.
> 1) Go to File > Save As Template on the main menu bar to open the Template
> Manager dialog. By default the Template Manager opens at the Documents page.
> 2) Double click on the MediaWiki folder to select it and activate the Save
> icon, then click the Save icon.
> 3) Specify the template name in the pop-up dialog and click Accept. The
> template is saved into the MediaWiki folder. This appears in the MediaWiki
> folder on the dialog page of the file type being saved, which is
> Presentations.
> 4) Close the Template Manager dialog.
> 5) Go to File > New > Templates on the main menu bar to open the Template
> Manager dialog again.
> Note: Closing and opening the Template Manager is necessary so that the
> following steps can be carried out to move your template into the My
> Templates folder.
> 6) Select the Presentations tab to open the dialog page for presentations
> (Figure 32).
> 7) Double-click the MediaWiki folder to open it.
> 8) Select the template you have just added and the file handling controls
> are displayed.
> 9) Click the Move to folder icon and select My Templates from the drop list
> that appears. Your template will be moved from the MediaWiki folder to the
> My Templates
> folder.
> 10) Close the Template Manager dialog.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
>
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