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To set a custom template as the default:
1) From the main menu, choose File > Templates > Organize. The
Template Management dialog opens.
2) In the box on the left, select the folder containing the template
that you want to set as the default, then select the template.
3) Click the Commands button and choose Set As Default
Template from the drop-down menu.
The next time that you create a document by choosing File > New, the
document will be created from this template.
Although many important settings can be changed in the Options
dialog (see Chapter 14), for example default fonts and page size, more
advanced settings (such as page margins) can only be changed by
replacing the default template with a new one.
Resetting the default template
To re-enable OOo’s default template for a document type as the
default:
1) In the Template Management dialog, click any folder in the box on
the left.
2) Click the Commands button and choose Reset Default
Template > Spreadsheet from the drop-down menu.
The next time that you create a spreadsheet by choosing File > New,
it will be created from OOo’s default template for spreadsheets.
Associating a spreadsheet with a different
template
At times you might want to associate a spreadsheet with a different
template, or perhaps you’re working with a spreadsheet that did not
start from a template but you now want it associated with a template.
One of the major advantages of using templates is the ease of updating
styles in more than one document, as described on page 122. If you
update styles by copying them from a different template (as described
on page 117), the document has no association with the template from
which the styles were loaded—so you cannot use this method. What
you need to do is associate the document with the different template.
For best results, the names of styles should be the same in the existing
document and the new template. If they are not, you will need to use
Search and Replace to replace the old styles with new ones. See
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