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3) Find and select the package of templates you want to install and click Open. The package
begins installing. You may be asked to accept a license agreement.
4) When the package installation is complete, restart LibreOffice. The templates are available
for use through File > Templates > Manage and File > New > Templates and the
extension is listed in the Extension Manager.
See Chapter 14 Customizing LibreOffice for more about the Extension Manager.
Setting a default template
If you create a document by choosing File > New > Text Document (or Spreadsheet,
Presentation, or Drawing) from the Menu bar, LibreOffice creates the document from the default
template for that type of document. You can, however, change the default whenever you choose.
Note for Microsoft Word users
You may know that Microsoft Word employs a normal.dot or normal.dotx file for
its default template and how to regenerate it.
LibreOffice does not have a similar default template file; the “factory defaults” are
embedded within the software.
Setting a template as the default
Most default settings, such as page size and page margins, can be changed in Tools > Options,
but those changes apply only to the document you are working on. To make those changes the
default settings for that document type, you need to replace the default template with a new one.
You can set any template displayed in the Template Manager dialog to be the default for that
document type:
1) From the Menu bar, choose File > Templates > Manage.
2) In the Template Manager dialog, open the folder containing the template that you want to
set as the default, then select the template.
3) Click the Set as default button above the list of templates (see Figure 50).
The next time that you create a document of that type by choosing File > New, the document will
be created from this template.
Resetting the default template
To re-enable LibreOffice’s original default template for a document type as the default for that type:
1) In the Template Manager dialog, click the Action Menu icon on the right.
2) Point to Reset Default Template on the drop-down menu, and click Text Document (or
other template type).
These choices do not appear unless a custom template has been set as the default, as described
in the previous section.
The next time that you create a document by choosing File > New, the document will be created
from the original default template for the document type.
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