"new document based on this template" option does not stick

[mrkozmic]

I have created a template with some custom styles. For each style I have selected the "new document based on this template" option.


When I want to do some more modifications to one of the styles and open the modify style window, the "new document based on this template" option is no longer selected, but "only in this document" is.

Could someone please explain me how this works?

[gmayor]

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).

[Stefan Blom]

"New document based on this template" copies a style definition into the attached template. The option isn't supposed to be sticky. The purpose is to update the template with the newest "version" of your style.