[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 50699] Template Changer: Allow ability to change a document's associated template

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50699

--- Comment #64 from Jon Grossart <jon at grossart.net> ---
The main reasons to relink a document to the a different template (besides the
ones where it doesn't link to a new change -- and I've definitely had template
links get broken even with the template still exists) if you occasionally
change your default template and want old documents to be easily updated to the
new format. 

Currently, that involves:

1. load the styles from another document
2. create a document from the new template
3. copy and paste over so that the correct styles are supplied

If you just copy and paste the text over, you either keep the old text (because
it keeps the extra formatting on top of the style version) or you past
unformatted, but then you need to go back and fix everything.

For me, I run a small business, and there are times when I want to keep a
document linked to header from a specific time, but then easily copy the
document over and update to the new header as well. Think for things like
generating reports and such. I need to keep both header templates around, not
just change the base one.

As mentioned, writer and Impress probably need this the most, but other apps
can benefit from it as well. And seeing as how the basic functionality is
already in LibO (since it can update styles) and it would help give parity to
Word/MS Office (which can use Quick Styles which is essentially super fast
template switching with preview -- but there is an enhancement request for
that), I don't see why there so much against this request.

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