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[Joel Pickett <jlkpcktt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Echoing comment #63, it's annoying installing Ubuntu, a full-featured
desktop OS, to find that there's no document templates available. I'd
much rather not have it at all than to have something that you have to
actually create the templates yourself.

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Title:
  "Create Document" Templates difficult to use

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Confirmed
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The "Create Document" right-click option has only "Empty file" as an
  option and a rather puzzling "No templates installed" second option.

  I expected to find templates for the most common Openoffice file
  types.

  This is confusing for non-expert users and can lead to problems.
  Particularly to those used to the windows behaviour.

  I suggest creating a group of templates (openoffice word processor,
  spreadsheet, presentation) as the default set to ease the newcomers
  difficulties.

  As a matter of fact, a friend I introduced to Linux just realized all the documents she created using that method didn't have any format. She used a simple (although wrong) method to create Openoffice files.
  #1 Right Click inside folder - Create document - Empty File (Just as any windows user could do)
  #2 Rename document to whatever she wanted - Ex: Doc1.odt (this is a somehow advanced behaviour but still common for windows users).
  #3 Open file and ignore ASCII Filter Option message (whatever - OK)
  #4 Write in the document.
  #5 Save - Ignore warning about formating and Click on "Keep Current Format" instead of "Save in ODF format" (this could be seen as a huge mistake, and it is, but also a common behaviour if you are used to open DOC files with Openoffice. You end up ignoring those warnings).

  What I am proposing is to put template files for the most common
  document formats (at least openoffice ones) into the Templates folder
  by default. This way, the windows newcomers would find a Create
  Openoffice Word file option and avoid very damaging mistakes as the
  one explained before. Also, this would fill an usability gap between
  linux and windows.

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