Stop Saving Over My Template

[timbojimbo]

I’ve created a template that I use daily for my work. Sometimes I forget that I need to press save as and just absentmindedly press ctrl+s, thus overwriting my template. Is there a way to disable this?

[ajlittoz]

This seems to indicate your “template” as just another ordinary file. To male it a template in LO concept, it should be saved with .ott extension instead of .odt. You have two possibilities for that:

• File>Save As and select file format from the drop-down menu

  The template can be stored anywhere, usually in a folder of your home directory. You double-click on it and LO Writer changes the name to Untitled-1.odt so that Ctrl+S does not overwrite the template.

• File>Save As Template

  The template will be saved in the “system” template directory, so that File>New>Templates allows you to select which one you want to instantiate. Name will also be changed to Untitled-1.odt.

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