OpenOffice/Impress -- how to import a template?

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:40 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> I'm trying to put together a presentation with Impress.  I decided to
> check out one of the templates here:
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> Manually copying the template file to ~/.openoffice/user/template/
> doesn't make it appear when I want to create a new set of slides.
...
> Has anybody had any luck importing templates into Impress?  If so,
> what steps did you perform?

    I haven't installed Impress templates because the styles are too 
prissy for my business environment.  The general slide formats work 
fine.  My wife paints nice stuff, so one of her pictures goes as 
background for the cover slide and section breaks.  If it is summertime 
and I am in the hot South or South West, some cool NH hiking pictures 
from the White Mountains work.

    Here are my notes.  One way or the other, they worked with 1.01, 
1.1, and 1.13 versions.  Maybe you have to add your own directories as 
I did.  It also may matter if you installed stand-alone or multi-user.  
OO keeps some templates in /opt/Open.../user/templates also.  The 
conflict may be there.

    These are my notes to myself.  (These days I talk to myself too - 
with or without others present.)
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    The Intrel templates are stored in aaajak/isc/std/oo.  In the past, 
they had to be imported via OO, not copied.  Assume things are the 
same.

    Open File->Templates->Organize.  Select Default in the left box, 
then Commands->New to get a new category; create ISC, JAK, and 
TESCO.  Select ISC, then Command->Import Template.  Maneuver the file 
box to /std/oo and copy the first isc_* template.  Repeat for  all the 
ISC templates.  Repeat for JAK.  Repeat for TESCO.

    The Star Office templates might come by copying.  Try it.  Yes, just 
copy all the template directories 
into /home/jak/OpenOffice.org/user/template.  (The templates are not 
very useful.)

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