Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to transfer styles among documents created from the same template?
Am 31.01.2012 22:56, schrieb Dan Lewis: > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:03 +, Harold Fuchs wrote: >>> >>> "Johannes Sixt" wrote in message >>> news:4f21b5e1.3000...@kdbg.org... >>> I have custom document template, and from this template a handful >>> software manuals were authored. Styles were used extensively. Now it's >>> time to modernize the look of the manuals, but we don't want to repeat >>> the style changes in all manuals. (That's what styles are for, aren't >>> they?) >>> >>> With MS Word (2000), the .doc files recorded the template. Styles can be >>> marked so that when they were changed while editing one of the .doc >>> files, that style changes were propagated to the template. Later, when >>> one of the other .doc files was opened, it copied all styles from the >>> template (automatically), which effectivly updates the other file as well. >>> >>> What is the workflow with LibreOffice to propagate style changes between >>> .doc files created from the same template? I looked at the documentation >>> and help pages around the template manager, but found only means to copy >>> styles manually. Is there something that works more automated? > > I have been trying to understand what you want to do nor what you > have done. Is the custom template created using LO? (Then it's extension > is .ott.) This template was used to create a handful of software > manuals. So now you want to change the template and with it change only > some of the software manuals? Are you going to make any changes in the > the rest of the software manuals? Guided by a post in a different thread here I headed over to http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ and read the chapter about templates. That clarified half of what I need. I want to edit one of the manuals, transfer new and updated styles to the template, and then apply the updated template to the other manuals. The template documentation explains that the latter step works automatically. I am not sure about the former step, yet, i.e., whether it is possible to copy the updated styles from the manual to the template without going to the Template Manager and copying the styles manually. Part of my problem is that I have converted the manuals from MS Word and there is no template associated with the manuals now. I'll have to use Template Changer. Thanks, -- Hannes -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to transfer styles among documents created from the same template?
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:03 +, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > > >"Johannes Sixt" wrote in message > >news:4f21b5e1.3000...@kdbg.org... > >I have custom document template, and from this template a handful > >software manuals were authored. Styles were used extensively. Now it's > >time to modernize the look of the manuals, but we don't want to repeat > >the style changes in all manuals. (That's what styles are for, aren't > >they?) > > > >With MS Word (2000), the .doc files recorded the template. Styles can be > >marked so that when they were changed while editing one of the .doc > >files, that style changes were propagated to the template. Later, when > >one of the other .doc files was opened, it copied all styles from the > >template (automatically), which effectivly updates the other file as well. > > > >What is the workflow with LibreOffice to propagate style changes between > >.doc files created from the same template? I looked at the documentation > >and help pages around the template manager, but found only means to copy > >styles manually. Is there something that works more automated? > > > >-- Hannes > > > > Did you ever get a reply to this? If so, would you please point me at it - I > never saw it in the list. > > Harold Fuchs > London, England I have been trying to understand what you want to do nor what you have done. Is the custom template created using LO? (Then it's extension is .ott.) This template was used to create a handful of software manuals. So now you want to change the template and with it change only some of the software manuals? Are you going to make any changes in the the rest of the software manuals? Sounds like you want to use the present template for some of the manuals and create a second template for the rest of the manuals. Is this what you want to do? If so, it can be done. OOo has an extension called Template Changer that also works with LO. This allows you to change a document's template and thus the styles the document uses. It is still done one document at a time however. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to transfer styles among documents created from the same template?
Am 31.01.2012 11:03, schrieb Harold Fuchs: >> "Johannes Sixt" wrote in message >> news:4f21b5e1.3000...@kdbg.org... >> What is the workflow with LibreOffice to propagate style changes between >> .doc files created from the same template? I looked at the documentation >> and help pages around the template manager, but found only means to copy >> styles manually. Is there something that works more automated? > > Did you ever get a reply to this? If so, would you please point me at it > - I never saw it in the list. No replies so far, unfortunately. :-( Which leads me to think that there is no built-in facility that copies styles automatically. -- Hannes -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: How to transfer styles among documents created from the same template?
"Johannes Sixt" wrote in message news:4f21b5e1.3000...@kdbg.org... I have custom document template, and from this template a handful software manuals were authored. Styles were used extensively. Now it's time to modernize the look of the manuals, but we don't want to repeat the style changes in all manuals. (That's what styles are for, aren't they?) With MS Word (2000), the .doc files recorded the template. Styles can be marked so that when they were changed while editing one of the .doc files, that style changes were propagated to the template. Later, when one of the other .doc files was opened, it copied all styles from the template (automatically), which effectivly updates the other file as well. What is the workflow with LibreOffice to propagate style changes between .doc files created from the same template? I looked at the documentation and help pages around the template manager, but found only means to copy styles manually. Is there something that works more automated? -- Hannes Did you ever get a reply to this? If so, would you please point me at it - I never saw it in the list. Harold Fuchs London, England -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
