Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?

I was wondering about the same thing Philip mentions, but then I saw 
that when I opened a new document, all the custom styles where there. 
But then I realized that it's probably because there is already some 
dummy text in my template which appears in a new document--it helps me 
remember what's in the template. Without the dummy text, clicking on 
"All Styles" or "Custom Styles" is likely necessary.

I hope that works for bunk3m.

On 11/24/23 17:57, Philip Jackson wrote:
> I've made my own templates for various categories of documents and 
> equipped each template with its own sets of customised styles. They 
> work fine. I did the set up some years ago and don't recall exactly 
> what steps were required but I don't recall any particular difficulty.
>
> I do remember that when I first used one of my templates, my 
> customised styles didn't show up but that was a simple oversight on my 
> part. In the sidebar panel (Ctrl-F5) which displays the styles, I had 
> never noticed the selector at the bottom which by default shows 
> 'Applied styles'.
>
> With a new blank document, there'll only be a default paragraph style 
> displayed. When I clicked on the drop-down list and selected 'All 
> styles', there were all my custom styles.
>
> I don't suppose you've made the same oversight?
>
> Philip
>
> On 24/11/2023 20:22, bunk3m wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm using LO 7.6.2.1 on Win11 and Mac.
> >
> > I can't get the styles to work and stick in templates.  I've used styles
> > and templates in MS Word for 30 years before switching to LO in the 
> > past 5
> > years.  I've read the help, Writer User Guide and Designing with LO 
> > 2nd Ed.
> > and apparently have missed something conceptual as I can't get the 
> > styles
> > to stick within the templates.
> >
> > I've created the styles in blank documents and then saved the 
> > document as a
> > template.I expected that the paragraph, font, list formats & styles 
> > that I
> > created would be saved in the template and reusable in subsequent 
> > documents
> > created from the templates.
> >
> > But when I use the templates to create a new document, none of the
> > previously created styles are there.  I find I have to recreate all the
> > styles again as they aren't anywhere within the template.  So far 
> > it's been
> > a colossal waste of time.
> >
> > I've found that all the "Youtube University" and User Guides are
> > superficial when it comes to styles.  My goal is to set up a set of
> > corporate styles that can be used by numerous people in our 
> > organization to
> > ensure consistency.
> >
> > Can someone direct me to some more detailed documentation on how the 
> > styles
> > are supposed to work?  Perhaps with some more detailed documentation 
> > I can
> > figure out what or how these are supposed to work ... or file a bug 
> > reports.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> > B.
>
>
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