Hi, I have just lost my beloved Lotus WordPro on OS/2 machine and am having to learn how to use Libre Office.
I am using LibreOffice 3.5:build-413 Build ID: 350m1(Build:413) on Linux 3.4.47-2.38-desktop x86_64 with system: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) and KDE: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) “release 2.”
I want to try one of the letter templates of which, using Dolphin, I can see there are many sitting in /usr/share/templates/libreoffice/en-US/personal. My problem is when I try and select a template using File>New>Templates and Documents I can see the directory en-US but nothing inside it.
When I tried to save a downloaded template I couldn’t save the file in the relevant directory. This might have been a permissions issue but surely I should have access to the templates that came with the installation.
Budgie2 wrote:
>
> Hi, I have just lost my beloved Lotus WordPro on OS/2 machine and am
> having to learn how to use Libre Office.
>
> I am using LibreOffice 3.5:build-413 Build ID: 350m1(Build:413) on
> Linux 3.4.47-2.38-desktop x86_64 with system: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
> and KDE: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) “release 2.”
>
> I want to try one of the letter templates of which, using Dolphin, I
> can see there are many sitting in
> /usr/share/templates/libreoffice/en-US/personal. My problem is when I
> try and select a template using File>New>Templates and Documents I can
> see the directory en-US but nothing inside it.
>
> When I tried to save a downloaded template I couldn’t save the file in
> the relevant directory. This might have been a permissions issue but
> surely I should have access to the templates that came with the
> installation.
>
> Grateful for some help here to get me started.
>
> Budgie2
>
>
Open Libreoffice writer ==> File ==>New ==>Templates and choose your
relevant template
I am on 12.2 here, thus it may acct different. But …
I wonder why you use File>New>Templates and Documents, where you want to use an existing template. When I use File>Open and then go to /usr/share/templates/libreoffice/Personal, I see a bunch of *.ott and some *.otg files there.
As you already assumed, a user can of course not store anything there.
Contemplating further on thsi, it is of course very strange that an end-user should know this path to the templates. What I normaly do is starting LibreOffice from Kmenu and not LibreOffice Writer. You then can click Templates. In the next window, I see en-US there and also a My templates where I find my own templates. IMHO this prevents you from using any path as it should be.
I too can see en-US and My Templates folder and templates I have created are in My Templates and label templates etc are available but the many Letter templates already supplied are not visible or available and I wonder why not.
Hi and thanks. This is what I have tried as I set out above. My point is that in the same was as there are many label templates (eg for Avery Labels) there are many standard letter templates but these I cannot access.
Budgie2 wrote:
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> vazhavandan;2575408 Wrote:
>> Budgie2 wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, I have just lost my beloved Lotus WordPro on OS/2 machine and am
>>> having to learn how to use Libre Office.
>>>
>>> I am using LibreOffice 3.5:build-413 Build ID: 350m1(Build:413) on
>>> Linux 3.4.47-2.38-desktop x86_64 with system: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
>>> and KDE: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) “release 2.”
>>>
>>> I want to try one of the letter templates of which, using Dolphin, I
>>> can see there are many sitting in
>>> /usr/share/templates/libreoffice/en-US/personal. My problem is when
>> I
>>> try and select a template using File>New>Templates and Documents I
>> can
>>> see the directory en-US but nothing inside it.
>>>
>>> When I tried to save a downloaded template I couldn’t save the file
>> in
>>> the relevant directory. This might have been a permissions issue but
>>> surely I should have access to the templates that came with the
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> Grateful for some help here to get me started.
>>>
>>> Budgie2
>>>
>>>
>> Open Libreoffice writer ==> File ==>New ==>Templates and choose your
>> relevant template
>>
>> –
>> GNOME 3.6.2
>> openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
>> Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
>
> Hi and thanks. This is what I have tried as I set out above. My point
> is that in the same was as there are many label templates (eg for Avery
> Labels) there are many standard letter templates but these I cannot
> access.
>
> Perhaps you know how?
>
>
I would like to share some screenshots but I am using LO 4.X which might
have different user interface compared to 3.X series which you seem to
be using
I just had a look at my setup (4.0) and realised that I too could not access these templates; the answer was to go to Tools>Options>Paths, delete all the existing system paths (leaving the /home path) and Add:
After restarting LibreOffice, I find there are no templates in the en-US folder; instead the en-US templates are all spread around the other folders - this appears to be a bug in the user interface.
Hi John,
Ok will give it a try but I have meanwhile discovered a template “wizard” which seems to offer some of the unavailable templates as options. If I wanted wizards and MS Word look alike I would have installed Windoze and Office!!!
All this is making me even more determined to restore my old machine and Wordpro.
Thanks again,
Budgie2