Many people manually format spreadsheet cells and pages without paying any attention to styles. When you apply a style, you apply a whole group of formats at the same time.

We begin by describing styles and their use, as styles are a major component of templates.Ī style is a set of formats that you can apply to selected elements in a document to quickly change their appearance.

This chapter describes how to create, use, modify, and organize templates.

If you have not specified a default template, OOo uses the blank spreadsheet template that is installed with OOo. When you start a new spreadsheet without choosing a specific template (as described in Creating a spreadsheet from a template), the new spreadsheet is based on the default template for spreadsheets. You can create, or download and install, as many templates as you wish. Templates can contain anything that regular documents can contain, such as text, graphics, styles, and user-specific setup information such as measurement units, language, the default printer, and toolbar and menu customization.Īll documents-text, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings-in are based on templates. New spreadsheets created from this template will all have your company’s logo and address on the first page. For example, you can create a template for invoices that has your company’s logo and address at the top of the page. This is Chapter 4 of the 3 Calc Guide, produced by the ODFAuthors group.Ī PDF of this chapter is available from this wiki page.Ī template is a model that you use to create other documents.

Openoffice calc templates