
Just clicking it will open the document in the same window. A list of recently opened documents will appear in the drop-down menu. There are even documents especially designed for math and drawing! The keyboard shortcut to create a document is Ctrl+ N. LibreOffice offers you a variety of document types, such as Spreadsheet (Excel) and Presentation (PowerPoint) documents. These commands apply to the current document, open a new document, or close the application. That’s a handy shortcut for opening templates.Learn to use the File Menu. Now you can open specific templates with OpenOffice’s New button instead of selecting File > New > Templates and Documents. Click Text Document to revert back to the original.

Then find the default template there, right-click it and select Reset Default Template from context menu. To switch back to the original blank document default, open the Template Management window again. You can click on the placeholders to enter content into the template. That will then open your selected default document template as below. Next, press the New button on OpenOffice’s toolbar or the hotkey Ctrl + N. Select that option to set the template up as your default. You’ll find a Set As Default Template option on the context menu. Then right-click the template to open the context menu below. Click the subfolders to find a specific template. If you often need to open the same template in OpenOffice applications select it as the default document that opens when you press New.Ĭlick File > Templates and Organize to open the Template Management window in the snapshot below. OpenOffice includes a variety of templates for spreadsheets, presentations and text documents but it opens a default blank template when you press the New button. Templates give you a great shortcut for setting up documents such as letters.
