Re: [libreoffice-users] Template confusion - 6.3.4.2 on Ubuntu

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:51:57 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj@gmx.com> dijo:

> I have been using LO, and previously OO, since ~2002, and I currently
> have 6.3.4.2 on Xubuntu 18.04, up to date. This version was installed
> with the PPA supplied by LO.
>
> Needing to figure out my numerous templates I searched for *.ott and
> came up with files scattered all over. So my first question is, where
> is the preferred location so I can corral them all in the same place?
>
> And then I have a problem with the default Writer template
> 'Default.ott,' of which there is only one I practically never use
> anything but Writer, and when I launch Writer it comes up with a new,
> blank document based on the default template. This is as it should be,
> but there is something in the default template that I need to change -
> the settings for the First Line Indent style. It defaults to adding
> seven points between paragraphs, but I must always change that to -0-,
> in order to comply with university and publishing style guidelines. And
> no, I do not want a special template for this; I just want to change
> the settings for the default template.
>
> I launched Writer, then closed the new, blank document and selected the
> Default template for editing. Imagine my surprise when the setting for
> First Line Indent showed -0- points for additional spacing between
> paragraphs. Yet when I open a new document based on the default
> template the setting for First Line Indent is always an additional
> seven points between paragraphs.
>
> What is going on here?

I found part of the problem. For some reason LO Writer was not using
the Default.ott file for the default template. I found how to force it
to use this template, but I never figure out which template it was
using for the default. But at least now a new document comes up with
the right settings for the First Line Indent style.

But so far I have failed to figure out where the default folder for
templates is. I'd really like to tidy things up.

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