📘 Create and Use Template
🔹 Introduction
📄 A template is a pre-designed document used to create new documents with the same layout and formatting.
🎯 Templates save time and help maintain uniformity across documents like resumes, letters, reports, etc.
🔹 What are Templates?
📝 A template contains predefined formatting like font style, font size, margins, and layout.
📂 Templates are saved with the extension .ott in LibreOffice Writer.
✅ When you use a template, it creates a new document without changing the original template.
🔹 Using Predefined Templates
📁 Step 1: Open LibreOffice Writer.
📚 Step 2: Go to File → Templates → Manage Templates.
📜 Step 3: Choose a category like "Business Correspondence" or "Education".
➕ Step 4: Select a template and click Open to create a new document using that template.
🔹 Creating a Template
✍️ Step 1: Open LibreOffice Writer and design your document with required formatting.
💾 Step 2: Go to File → Templates → Save As Template.
📌 Step 3: Enter a name for your template.
📁 Step 4: Choose a category like "My Templates".
✅ Step 5: Click Save to save your custom template.
🔹 Setting up Default Template
⭐ You can set a custom template as default so every new document automatically uses it.
📑 Step 1: Go to File → Templates → Manage Templates.
🔍 Step 2: Select your desired template.
⚙️ Step 3: Click the arrow next to Open and select Set as Default.
🔹 Changing to a Different Template
🔄 To apply a different template to an existing document:
📂 Step 1: Open your existing document in LibreOffice Writer.
⚙️ Step 2: Go to Styles → Load Styles from Template.
📁 Step 3: Select the template and choose which styles to apply.
🆗 Step 4: Click OK to update the document with new styles.
🔹 Updating a Document
📌 If you change a template, it will not automatically update documents already created from it.
⚠️ Old documents must be updated manually by importing styles.
🔄 To update styles, go to Styles → Load Styles and select the updated template.
