Why We Should Increase the Margins to 1.25 inches To define the page width and margins on our custom template, go to Format, Page. So far, our template is the same as the default template in Tools, Options, Libre Writer Fonts. This OTT ending extension tells us that this is a template and not a normal Writer document. At the top of the screen, you will see that the file name ends with an OTT extension rather than an ODT extension. This will open the template – which will look like a new blank Writer document – with one major exception. To review and edit our new default template, go to File, Templates, Manage Templates. Then assign it to the My Templates category and click Save.
Give it a name such as My Default Template and check the box to make it our default template. We can turn any document into a template by clicking on File, Templates, Save as Template. To create a new blank template, click on File, New, Text Document to open a new blank page. In order to control all of these settings, we need to create our own custom template. A real template would allow us to set the page margins, footers, headers, image properties and make dozens of other formatting decisions. The problem with this screen is that it is not a real template. In a previous section, we changed the settings in this screen from Liberation Sans Serif to Liberation Sans. It can be found by going to Tools, Options, LibreOffice Writer, Basic Fonts. Libre Office Writer comes with a predefined template which cannot be easily changed. This is because the custom Paragraph Styles we will create will be automatically converted by Libre Writer to Custom CSS Classes during File Save As HTML Writer conversion. The template we will create is specifically designed to be a source document for creating not only print books and PDF books but also for creating Ebooks, web pages and online course pages. A template is a special document which is used as a pattern for creating other documents. In this section we will review how to create your own custom template – which can then be used as a model for creating all of your future documents and all of your future templates.
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