Install Template Documents

There are no predefined Templates for GNOME and thus Ubuntu. This is just a feature for your own custom templates.

To Install some templates you have created you can do the following:

1) Goto Places -> Home
2) In the File Browser Click Go -> Templates
3) Copy in any templates you would like to have available. (For example, create a blank text file called "New Text File.txt" and you would have New Text File available from the right click menu).
4) Now this is accessable from the menu

NOTE: This will have created a Template directory in your home folder - ~/Templates. So you can just copy any templates in there and they will be available.

Thanks!

this one helped me as well. thanks.

I am using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, and if I follow the above description (2) In the File Browser Click Go -> Templates) Nautilus brings me to my home folder. What is that supposed to mean?

I had the same problem. To solve it, you need to edit your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file and change the following line

XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME"

with this one

XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"

then your templates will be available in the menu :D

(thanks to Wolki for the tip in the Ubuntu Forums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4942614#post4942614).

This one helped me as well. thanks.

Thank you dcontard