LibreOffice Writer will inject the selected AutoText snippet “where your cursor was” in your active document.

To use them, select the one you want and click the Insert button. They may have specific Writer templates.The AutoText window comes by default with many snippets of phrases and even entire templates. If those templates are downloaded from somewhere, see that site again. It is sometimes a lot of work, but in the end it may save labor (and sanity). Sometimes it is a better idea to create the template from scratch instead of adjusting a converted Word template. Do the style lists for paragraph or numbering styles contain countless 'Convert.' or 'WW8.' styles?ĭo you still have access to Word? Sometimes the result is better when you save the file from Word (which also supports ODF formats in recent versions).

numbered/hierarchical lists, automated paragraph transitions, special content in ToC/index) may also cause the creation of styles (sometimes a maze of interconnected paragraph, character, list and page styles).Īfter saving as ODT/OTT, check your template. The 'easy fields' introduced with Word 2013 will mostly be discarded, I think (I have some experience with conversion of those, but not very much.). For atomated page layout changes (like a special first page) Writer will create a number of paragraph and page styles to handle the transition. If your template uses some means for meticulous placement, page headers/footers, frames, tables, columns, perhaps even tables within table cells, the settings for placement, margins and other spacing will most likely need adjustment.

Word and Writer handle spacing and marginalia differently. Techniques used for placement/spacing.How well a conversion works will depend largely on how the original template was created.

Openoffice templates to libreoffice