1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textswriterguidetemplates_stylesxml" indexer="include"> 27<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Templates and Styles</title> 28<filename>/text/swriter/guide/templates_styles.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153396"><bookmark_value>formatting styles; styles and templates</bookmark_value> 33<bookmark_value>styles; styles and templates</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>organizing; templates (guide)</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>templates; organizing (guide)</bookmark_value> 36</bookmark> 37<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3153396" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 38oldref="15"><variable id="templates_styles"><link href="text/swriter/guide/templates_styles.xhp" name="Templates and Styles">Templates and Styles</link> 39</variable></paragraph> 40<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149635" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="2">A template is a document that contains specific formatting styles, graphics, tables, objects, and other information. A template is used as the basis for creating other documents. For example, you can define paragraph and character styles in a document, save the document as a template, and then use the template to create a new document with the same styles.</paragraph> 41<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149957" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG" oldref="18">Unless you specify otherwise, every new $[officename] text document is based on the default template.</paragraph> 42<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149974" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="3">$[officename] has a number of <link href="text/swriter/01/05130000.xhp" name="predefined templates">predefined templates</link> that you can use to create different types or text documents, such as business letters.</paragraph> 43<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149613" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="4">Viewing and Organizing Styles in Templates</paragraph> 44<list type="ordered"> 45<listitem> 46<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106B0" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Use the <link href="text/shared/01/01110100.xhp" name="Template Management">Template Management</link> dialog to copy styles from one document to another.</paragraph> 47</listitem> 48<listitem> 49<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153377" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="7">To copy a style, drag it to another template or document.</paragraph> 50</listitem> 51</list> 52<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 53<embed href="text/swriter/guide/load_styles.xhp#load_styles"/> 54<embed href="text/swriter/guide/change_header.xhp#change_header"/> 55<embed href="text/swriter/guide/stylist_fillformat.xhp#stylist_fillformat"/> 56<embed href="text/swriter/guide/stylist_fromselect.xhp#stylist_fromselect"/> 57<embed href="text/swriter/guide/template_default.xhp#template_default"/> 58</body> 59</helpdocument> 60