[Solved] Dictionary prefs not saving to newly created .odt?

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[Solved] Dictionary prefs not saving to newly created .odt?

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Hello, all! Back again for a bit of fun; you're all so nice, I came back twice. :mrgreen:
Operating status is Win 8.1 Office 4.1.5, same as the last time.

Everything's been running swimmingly, but I've noticed that newly created .odt files A: use English (USA) for their dictionary, and liberation serif for their font, and B: even with the options changed to arial and UK in the settings of both openoffice & libreoffice, nothing changes. This is an incredibly minor issue rather then a pain, but I'm curious if anyone happens to know why this might be the case? I'm assuming that in the (kinky, as some might say!) os what is windows, it has a registry entry somehwere I can tweak. I've tried editing the defaults in both folders, to no luck.

Don't sweat if there's no solution. Thanks, as ever, for being superlative.

Solution: As in a prior question, I have both OpenOffice and LibreOffice installed. I had changed the soffice.odt file several times over with no effect, though I could create new docs from within openoffice that used it, just fine.
This made me realise that what was probably going on is that the Windows shell was creating odts from LibreOffice; I used Everything, found LibreOffice's soffice.odt, copied over my standard soffice.odt... Hey presto, all is working as intended. Hope the answer helps somebody else down the line.
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Re: Dictionary/Font prefs not saving to newly created .odt?

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How are you creating new files - via File | New from within OpenOffice, or via right click in Windows?
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See last post of this one: [Tutorial] Creating a new default template.

Please add [Solved] at the beginning of the title in your first post (top of the topic) with the *EDIT button if your issue has been fixed.
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Re: [Solved] Dictionary prefs not saving to newly created .o

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Thanks robleyd, Hagar!

Problem solved by musing over your answers, but for the sake of clarity in case future users are here...

How are you creating new files - via File | New from within OpenOffice, or via right click in Windows?: Via context-click; it was hitting on that the documents created internally from within OpenOffice were working as planned that hit me on the solution.

See last post of this one: [Tutorial] Creating a new default template.: This was the stuff! Specifically, your very last post here helped me figure out why replacing/saving over OpenOffice's soffice.odt file wasn't working; Windows is using LibreOffice's soffice.odt as the gold standard. Replaced that, and all is well!

Again, many thanks to the both of you. That should be all, thanks!
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