Getting Started with Open Office .org 3 part 8. This Manual Book is for anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with the latest version . “GETTING STARTED WITH ″ introduces all software programs of the OpenOffice bundle: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector drawings), Math (equation editor) and Base (database). This book was written by volunteers from the community working through and is distributed under the CreativeCommon Attribution Licence | Creating a template using a wizard You can use wizards to create templates for letters faxes agendas presentations and Web pages. For example the Fax Wizard guides you through the following choices Type of fax business or personal Document elements like the date subject line business fax salutation and complementary close Options for sender and recipient information business fax Text to include in the footer business fax To create a template using a wizard 1 From the main menu choose File Wizards type of template required . File Edit Vie1 1 Insert Format Table Tools Window Help L New Open. . Ctrl O Recent Documents Figure 47. Creating a template using a wizard 2 Follow the instructions on the pages of the wizard. This process is slightly different for each type of template but the format is very similar. 3 In the last section of the wizard you can specify the name and location for saving the template. The default location is your user templates directory but you can choose a different location if you prefer. 4 Finally you have the option of creating a new document from your template immediately or manually changing the template. For future documents you can re-use the template created by the wizard just as you would use any other template. Chapter 3 Using Styles and Templates 71 Editing a template You can edit a template s styles and content and then if you wish you can reapply the template s styles to documents that were created from that template. Note that you can only reapply styles. You cannot reapply content. To edit a template 1 From the main menu choose File Templates Organize. The Template Management dialog opens see Figure 48 . Figure 48 Template management dialog 2 In the box on the left double-click the folder that contains the template that you want to edit. A list of all the templates contained in that folder appears underneath the folder name. 3 Select the template that you want to edit. 4 Click the Commands button and choose Edit from the dropdown .
