LibreOffice Templates

[Deleted member 111282]

When I was still in high school from 2008-2012, I was still a Windows user, and I remember using Microsoft Office to complete assignments. One thing I always loved about MO was when you start up one of the programs (let's say Word), one of the first thing it brings up are the large variety of templates that came preinstalled. After I switched over to Linux by the end of high school, I began using LibreOffice because it came preinstalled, and even to this day (while using the most recent version of it), two things I still don't like about it are the templates don't come up when you start up a program (you have to go to File > Templates instead), and the amount of default templates to choose from is minuscule compared to what MO offered back then, which causes the end user to have to go to LO's website and fish for ones they want or need. Before anyone says it, yes I know Windows isn't Linux and vice-versa, but all I simply want is LO to be the FOSS equivalent to MO, as that distinction is small but enough to make them two different programs. I'm wondering if why the Document Foundation designs it this way to avoid including bloatware? If that's the case, why not include a feature where you can remove the templates you don't like or need?

Just to be clear, I still like LO itself, I just find this template issue to be inconvenient, stupid, and lackluster

 

[KGIII]

LO's Impress opens with a 'select a template' first. So, there's some precedent. In fact, that template thing is what triggers one of my oldest bugs.

You'd really only get a qualified answer from them. If you're going to do all that, you should file that bug upstream for me.

Bug #1905322 “LibreOffice crashes under load.” : Bugs : libreoffice package : Ubuntu

lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Hirsute Hippo (development branch) Release: 21.04 apt-cache policy libreoffice libreoffice: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.0.3-0ubuntu1 Version table: 1:7.0.3-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/universe...

bugs.launchpad.net

Their bug reporting process is pretty onerous, so it has never been filed upstream. Also, nobody will ever trigger the bug unless they're testing.

 

[Deleted member 108694]

You can grab extra templates and extension here - https://extensions.libreoffice.org/ you just have to make sure the extension is compatible with your version of LO

 

[Deleted member 111282]

You can grab extra templates and extension here - https://extensions.libreoffice.org/ you just have to make sure the extension is compatible with your version of LO

While I appreciate you pointing me in that direction, I've already mentioned my awareness of it in the OP, and that the templates should be in the program instead of on the website

 

[Deleted member 111282]

You'd really only get a qualified answer from them.

While I can contact them and suggest they take inspiration from MO, I can't guarantee they'll actually go along with it because that's a bit more work for them to implement

 

[Deleted member 108694]

Open the Microsoft Word template in LibreOffice Writer and then do a File | Save As and save the file as an .ott file (OpenDocument Template). Then save the template in the proper directory so the template is available for use.
Although sometimes the conversion is not 100%

 

[Deleted member 111282]

Open the Microsoft Word template in LibreOffice Writer and then do a File | Save As and save the file as an .ott file (OpenDocument Template). Then save the template in the proper directory so the template is available for use.
Although sometimes the conversion is not 100%

While I could go through the hassle of doing that, it would eventually get annoying because it would reinforce my point of how LO isn't as good as MO in regards like this

 

[f33dm3bits]

While I could go through the hassle of doing that, it would eventually get annoying because it would reinforce my point of how LO isn't as good as MO in regards like this

I've read somewhere that Microsoft Office doesn't follow open standards all the time and LibreOffice does, so that might have something to do with incompatibility here and there with some type of documents made in Microsoft Office not working correctly in LibreOffice.

 

[Deleted member 108694]

Microsoft originally announced the Office 2019 would be the last standalone version - but since then have changed their mind and Office 2021 was released maybe this will be the last standalone - who knows - but seems to me that MS is moving toward "services" over standalone software and everything will be web based like Office 365