Thread: "new document based on this template" option does not stick
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Old 03-05-2015, 03:35 AM
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If you create a new template, then that new template is based on an existing template - probably the normal template. If while that template is open, you create styles and check the box 'new document based on this template' then you will be saving the styles in the source template i.e. the normal template as well as in the new template you are creating.

When you re-open the template, to edit it, then the relationship with the normal template is no longer relevant. You are saving the settings directly in the template itself.

If you open a document based on the new template and then edit the styles in that document, the option will then again be available and if you check it the settings are changed in the new template also (provided you save that template).
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