Operation Manual

Templates from other sources
You can download templates for LibreOffice from many sources, including the official template
repository at http://templates.libreoffice.org/, and install them on your computer. On other websites
you may find collections of templates that have been created using OpenDocument format that
Draw uses as its default format. These templates from other sources are installed using the
Extension Manager, as described in “Importing template collections” on page 213.
Some of these templates are free of charge; others are available for a fee. Check the descriptions
to see what licenses and fees apply to the ones that interest you. To import individual templates,
see “Importing templates” on page 213 for more information and to import a template collection,
see “Importing template collections” on page 213 for more information.
Creating templates
1) Open the drawing that you want to use for a template, or open a template that you want to
use as a basis for your template.
2) Add any extra content and styles or edit the content and styles in your drawing.
3) Go to File > Templates > Save As Template on the main menu bar to open the Template
Manager (Figure 242).
4) Open the My Templates folder as your destination folder to activate the Save icon ,
then click the Save icon.
Alternatively, click on the New Folder icon and create your own folder for your Draw
templates, then open your own folder to activate the Save icon and click the Save
icon.
5) Type a name for the new template in the Enter template name text box.
6) Click OK to save the new template in the destination folder.
7) Close the Template Manager.
Figure 242: Template Manager as it appears when saving a template
Note
When you are saving a new template, the Template Manager shows only one tab,
Documents, as shown in Figure 242. However, when you are creating a document
from a template, as described in "Using templates" below, four tabs are shown in
the Template Manager (see Figure 243). The new template is automatically
displayed on the tabbed page corresponding to that type of template. For example,
Draw templates are located on the Drawings page.
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