Taking Your Microsoft Office Templates, and Making Them Available in OpenOffice.org or StarOffice

If you have a bunch of Microsoft Office templates that you love, you can just choose File > Open in OpenOffice.org to use them. However, if you want them to be available in the wizard when you create a new presentation, or available from File > New > Templates and Documents in OpenOffice.org, you need to do two things: convert them to OOo format, and put them where OOo expects to find them.

Converting Your Microsoft Office Templates to OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Format
You need to convert them to OpenOffice format. Choose File > Wizards > Document Converter. Follow the wizard through to create a converted set of copies of the templates.

Step 1.

Step 2, then just follow the wizard as prompted.

Pointing to Templates to Use: Approach 1
(Use Approach 2 if this doesn't work)
Now, choose Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Paths. Select the Templates line.

Click Edit, then click Add, and add the path to the templates you want to point to. (Click this image to see a larger version if you like.)

Click OK, and OK, and OK  again.

Now you'll see the templates when you choose File > New > Templates and Documents.

Pointing to Templates to Use: Approach 2 (Usually Need to Do This for Impress)
1. Copy the directory of converted copies.
2. Paste it into this directory:
openoffice\share\template\en-us (or whatever your language is)
3. If they don't show up in the wizard, restart OpenOffice.org and your computer if necessary

If You Only See One of the PowerPoint Templates That You Converted, in the OpenOffice Wizard
See this entry.

For More Information on Templates
For more information on templates, see this post, which includes this information.

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Templates are terrific, and *thanks* for the tips on how to move my MS templates--especially those I've customized--to OOo.

Suggestion/request for the next templates blog: How to classify the OOo or MS converted or personal templates into the (apparently faked) directories/folders that OOo uses. I'd love to move some of the OOo templates into different categories, and add my own templates (e.g. business letters and invoices) to existing categories.

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This is very informative and I need to duplicate the steps for my learning experience. However, I am working with my pastor on a new laptop that he is using for church documents and he doesn't want to purchase MS Office or Publisher which he had been using. I have not used Publisher and am new to Open Office, so we worked several hours today on getting used to the new laptop and various software issues. Is there any way to use MS publisher documents or templates directly in Open Office? Any ideas or suggestions would be helpful.

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Hi Blayne,

MS Publisher formats aren't compatible with any other application. To use the MS Office template, either follow the directions above or just do this: start OpenOffice, choose File > Open, find the MS template on your computer, and open it in OpenOffice. If you don't know where the template is, then open it in MS Word first, then choose File > Save, name it and note the directory, then you'll be able to open it in OpenOffice and use it.

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