Issue 13039 - OOo doesn't see Office templates
Summary: OOo doesn't see Office templates
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO PleaseHelp
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: 23613 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2003-04-04 13:46 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:30 UTC (History)
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screnn shot: the templates in windows explorer are missing from OO (106.72 KB, image/png)
2003-12-24 14:33 UTC, sforbes 		no flags Details
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Description Unknown 2003-04-04 13:46:02 UTC 
Steps:

1) In the Options dialog, add to the path for templates a directory tree that 
includes Office templates. (Mine has DOT and POT files in a number of 
directories.)

2) Choose File | New | Templates and Documents.

3) Attempt to navigate to an Office template.

Observed: Office templates don't show up.
Expected: To see my Office templates.

Notes: This worked without a problem in 1.0.2.
Comment 1 Oliver Specht 2003-04-07 12:39:48 UTC 
Target changed. 
Reassigned to mba.
Comment 2 Mathias_Bauer 2003-04-07 17:38:54 UTC 
In OOo1.0.x it worked "kind of". You could see the MSO templates in
the OOo template component, but using them caused several problems, so
we decided to remove that feature. 

We have to rewrite large pieces of code that are not aware of
templates not being our own format. This will happen in OOo2.0. Until
then you can't add MSO templates to the OOo template component. You
can still use them "As Template" f.e. by doubleclicking them on your
desktop.
Comment 3 h.ilter 2003-12-17 16:45:15 UTC 
*** Issue 23613 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 sforbes 2003-12-24 14:27:07 UTC 
I have just seen this with OpenOffice 1.1 final on Windows 2003- I did a batch
import of MSOffice 2003 templates, and althugh now all of them now appear as OO
templates in windows explorer, OO doesn't see most of them- esp. Power Point
templates (which where originally in a subdir)
Comment 5 sforbes 2003-12-24 14:33:27 UTC 
Created attachment 12108 [details]
screnn shot: the templates in windows explorer are missing from OO
Comment 6 Mathias_Bauer 2004-04-30 13:43:26 UTC 
Without a big effort I don't see this feature to be incorporated into the OOo2.0
version if we want to have a stable beta in autumn this year.
Comment 7 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:30:01 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".