One cool feature of Ubuntu 8.04, which I noticed back in version 7.10(Gutsy) I’m not sure if 7.04(Fiesty) had it. But essentially you could create folders which can in turn have template files within them.

When you right click anywhere on your desktop you get a popup menu which has the following items available.

• Create Folder
• Create launcher(Shortcut)
• Create Document
• Clean up by name
• Paste
• Change Desktop Background

The Item we will focus on will be the “Create Document” link which will host all the templates you would like to add.

Open your File Browser by clicking on Places >Home, here you will see a list or icons of all your folders within your Home directory and there is a folder called “Templates“, double click it to navigate to it.

Inside this folder (Templates) right click and select “Create Folder” and name the new folder Office Documents.

Now lets open Open Office Writer, you can do this by clicking on Applications >Office >OpenOffice.org Word Processor and click on New > Text Document then save this document to the Templates >Office Documents. Keep in mind that you can format this document to what ever you like. Now go back to your desktop and look at the “Create Document” link and you will see the Office Documents folder and within it the file you just created.

Even More templates can be added to this shortcut on your desktop.

This comes pretty handy if your always doing some creative work or always using a certain format for certain documents or files. And since your not limited to just Office Documents you can create any kind of template.