I’ve created a template and set it as default in the “manage templates” section, but it will only automatically load the template when I select File > New on the context menu. If I create a new text document on my desktop I’d like to be able to just click on it and have it open LibreOffice with the default template already set. Is this possible?
Using LibreOffice 5.2.3
The template used when using right click on desktop > New > OpenDocument Text are in Program Files>LibreOffice(ver)>share>template>shellnew as soffice.odt. This is a document file not a template file.
You could try temporary renaming this file and copying your template file there renaming it to soffice.odt not .ott.
Try it and see if spellcheck works.
Thank you! It even seems like spellcheck works!
If I remember correctly, there’s a bug in the utility to start new ODF files from the File Explorer. It loads a buggy default template and in such files spell checking doesn’t work properly. As long as that bug isn’t fixed, you’ll have to start Libre and start new documents there.
Is this a bug that is reasonably expected to be fixed? Does it exist in previous versions?
It has been around for a long time in OpenOffice, and therefore in Libre as well. I’m not a developer, so I don’t know if or when it will be fixed. The developers probably aren’t in a hurry because it doesn’t stop you from working with it - starting new files within Libre isn’t such a problem, just one or two mouse clicks more than starting from the desktop - so they’ll say it’s not very important.
Assuming by your question, you use Windows. You can create a BAT/CMD file containing a single command such as:
<full path to your template>\<template name>.ott
and put a shortcut to your desktop. Then simply double-click to start LO with a new document from the template.
Wouldn’t work a shortcut to the template on the desktop just as well?
For some reason, did not work to me (LO 5.0.2.1 on Windows 7), thus the above solution.