Operation Manual

Figure 243: Template Manager when creating a document from a template, showing
Drawing templates located in two folders, one of which is user-created. See note below.
Note
The Drawings tab shows all Drawing templates, regardless of their location in
folders.
In Figure 243, the user has created a separate folder for My Drawings and has
saved one Drawing template in it. If you have not created a separate folder for
drawings and saved or moved a template into it, all of your templates will be
displayed in the My Templates folder; the example shows one Drawing template
there.
Using templates
1) Click on Templates in the LibreOffice Start Center, or go to File > New > Templates on the
main menu bar, to open the Template Manager (Figure 243).
2) Click on the Drawings tab to open the page containing all the templates for use in Draw.
3) Navigate to the folder that contains the selection of drawing templates you want to use.
4) Select the template you want to use.
5) Click on the Open icon on the Template Manager toolbar or double-click on the
template. A new drawing will be created using the selected template and the Template
Manager dialog will close.
Setting default template
If you create a presentation by using File > New > Drawing on the main menu bar and do not
select a template, LibreOffice creates the drawing from the default Draw template, which is
normally a blank template. However, you can set any drawing template to be the default template,
even a template that you have created, so long as it is located in a folder displayed in the Template
Manager dialog. You can always reset the default template back to the blank template later if you
so choose.
Setting a custom template as default
To set a template that you have created or imported as default instead of using the Draw default
template:
1) Click on Templates in the LibreOffice Start Center or go to File > New > Templates to
open the Template Manager and select the Drawing tab (Figure 243).
2) Double-click on the My Templates folder or the folder that contains the template you want
to use to open the folder.
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