Template
A Template is a readily designed layout or format for creating documents.
OpenOffice.org has a template format for each of its document types, such as
text document templates
, spreadsheet templates or presentation templates.
Templates can provide little or a lot in terms of formatting that is already defined. For example a template can offer just a few styles for paragraphs. A more complex template can define the layout of a corporate letter, sales presentation, FAX cover sheet or a book. The role of a template is to save time or to standardize the look of documents.
When you open a template OpenOffice.org allows to edit the document like any other document. However your document is a new document and does not yet have a file assigned to it. This means when you save it for the first time it will ask you for a file name and the folder to store it in. As a matter of fact, OpenOffice creates a new document always from a default template, a different one for each document type it uses.
Working with Templates
The following screencasts demonstrate how to use Templates:
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