Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?

2023-11-24 Thread Eric Beversluis
I was wondering about the same thing Philip mentions, but then I saw that when I opened a new document, all the custom styles where there. But then I realized that it's probably because there is already some dummy text in my template which appears in a new document--it helps me remember what's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?

2023-11-24 Thread Philip Jackson
I've made my own templates for various categories of documents and equipped each template with its own sets of customised styles. They work fine. I did the set up some years ago and don't recall exactly what steps were required but I don't recall any particular difficulty. I do remember that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?

2023-11-24 Thread Eric Beversluis
The only other thing I can think of is that there's some step in creating and saving the template that you're missing. If no one else can help, later I'll open Write in M$ Word and try to guess what step you might be missing. Eric On 11/24/23 15:08, bunk3m wrote: Thank you Eric. I have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?

2023-11-24 Thread bunk3m
OK. I think I did. Please let me know if it didn't work properly. I hate gmail for trying to modify anything typical in an email. It's a piece of shit web software. :-) On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 15:08, bunk3m wrote: > Thank you Eric. > > I have a number of templates. For example, templates for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?

2023-11-24 Thread bunk3m
Thank you Eric. I have a number of templates. For example, templates for different types of reports, memoranda, letters etc. I did create a default template initially. I thought it would be something like the "normal" in MS Word. It contained all the styles. Then I created one a template

Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?

2023-11-24 Thread Eric Beversluis
Have you set your template as your default template? On Linux: Files/Templates/Manage Templates. Probably similar on Windows. On 11/24/23 14:22, bunk3m wrote: Hello, I'm using LO 7.6.2.1 on Win11 and Mac. I can't get the styles to work and stick in templates. I've used styles and templates

[libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?

2023-11-24 Thread bunk3m
Hello, I'm using LO 7.6.2.1 on Win11 and Mac. I can't get the styles to work and stick in templates. I've used styles and templates in MS Word for 30 years before switching to LO in the past 5 years. I've read the help, Writer User Guide and Designing with LO 2nd Ed. and apparently have missed