The Help instructions for changing the default template are not clear. The instructions are at https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Changing_Default_Templates The current version of the instructions is: 1. Save the document by choosing File - Templates - Save As Template and saving the document in the My Templates category. 2. Choose File - New - Templates. 3. Double-click My Templates' in the list. You will see the user-defined templates in the user directory specified under Tools - Options' - LibreOffice - Paths. Select the template you have just saved. 4. Choose Set as default. The next time you open a new text document, the new document will be based on the new default template. A clearer version would be: 1. Open the document that you wish to save as the default template. 2. From the menu choose File - Templates - Save As Template. 3. Click on "My Templates". 4. DO NOT click on any of the existing templates that are shown.If you have clicked on a template, the "Properties" and "Set as Default" icons will appear next to the "save" icon. Click on a blank part of the templates dialog box so that the "Properties" and "Set as Default icons disappear. 5. Click on the "Save" icon to open a template name dialog box. 5. Enter the template name in the dialog box. If you wish to over-write an existing template, enter the name of the template that you wish to over-write
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*** Bug 128215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seth Chaiklin committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/a2bd1ce7cf53abd37db55422c9b99a4e50d9d463 tdf#105719 tdf#122720 tdf#107229 help for making default template
Seth Chaiklin committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-1": https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/e2c545ce9755cbdbcd02be09c963da8566386446 tdf#105719 tdf#122720 tdf#107229 help for making default template