Openoffice.org2 Templates

[Daniel L. Miller]

Darryl Clarke wrote:
> On 25/01/06, Daniel L. Miller <dmiller at amfes.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Just subscribed, so if this was answered in an earlier thread, my
>> apologies.  Didn't see anything obvious via Google.
>>
>> Had problems opening some documents under the version 1.9 provided by
>> Breezy, so I just updated my machines to Dapper.  Version 2.0 is now
>> opening my documents fine - which is cool!
>>
>> But now my templates are no longer available.  I verified that my
>> template directory was set under Tools/Options/Paths just as before -
>> but my templates are no longer visible in the organizer.
>>
>> I can still manually browse to the templates and create documents from
>> them - but that's not the way it's supposed to work!
>>     
>
> Just an idea: you might need to run the document convesion wizard on
> your templates.  Since OOo2's default format is now OpenDocuments,
> your older templates could just be hiding.
>
> The wizard is in the file menu.
>
> Don't forget to backup first, just in case :)
>
> --
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>   
I'm already using the new format.  My Windoze-based 2.0 installs work 
fine - and the 1.9 linux is also working.  Weird.

Normally any change in the templates directory causes OpenOffice.org to 
refresh itself - but now these 2.0 machines no longer seem to view the 
template directory.

--
Daniel