<p class="Paragraph">When you open a new document with <span style="font-weight:bold;">File</span> - <span style="font-weight:bold;">New</span> a blank document appears based on a OpenOffice.org template. You can edit or modify this document or replace it with an existing document so that the new document contains your customized format attributes or other contents.</p>
<p class="Head2">Modifying Default Templates</p>
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<p style="">First, open a new document and edit it until you feel it would make a good template. This doesn't apply, of course, if you've already found a OpenOffice.org document which satisfies your needs.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can define templates for all OpenOffice.org applications. As this option is most interesting for text documents, we'll describe here how to create a template for one.</p>
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<p style="">Save the document with <span style="font-weight:bold;">File</span> - <span style="font-weight:bold;">Save As...</span>. Enter a name in the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Save</span> dialog and select a folder for the document, e.g., "My Templates."</p>
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<p style="">Now open the "My Templates" folder or the folder where you saved the future template.</p>
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<p style="">Select the document, which you want to use as a template -a text document in this example- and call up its context menu.</p>
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<p style="">Finally, in the context menu, select <span style="font-weight:bold;">Set Default Template - Text Document</span>. That's all. The next time you open a new text document, it will be based on the selected template.</p>
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<p class="Head2">Resetting Default Templates</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To reset the modified text template to the original default template, proceed as follows:</p>
<p style="">Select <span style="font-weight:bold;">(05) Text~Document</span> and call up the context menu.</p>
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<p style="">Select the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Reset Default</span> command. If you then open a new document it will be opened in the OpenOffice.org default template for text documents.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">There are several ways to make your work easier by using your own custom templates. One of the most important is quick access to the templates. You can store your templates in different locations in OpenOffice.org. Opening a new document with one of your templates will then differ accordingly.</p>
<p class="Head3">Templates in the template folder</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can save a new template via <span style="font-weight:bold;">File - Templates - Save</span> or select the "Template" file type in the "normal" Save dialog. If you save the template in the OpenOffice.org/user/template directory, you can access this template anytime by selecting it in the <span style="font-weight:bold;">New</span> dialog (<span style="font-weight:bold;">File - New - From Template</span>). If you open the template, a new document will be created based on this template.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:key-word value="updating; templates" tag="kw68109_2"/>You may need to update the templates' view in the dialog before viewing a new created template. In this case, select in the dialog the menu commands <span style="font-weight:bold;">File - Templates - Organize</span> and in the submenu of the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Commands</span> button, select <span style="font-weight:bold;">Update</span>.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you want to modify the template yourself, you can call this file via <span style="font-weight:bold;">File - Templates - Edit</span> and then edit it.</p>