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Templates Objectives: The Student will: 1. Understand what templates are used for 2. View the available templates

Templates Template: a saved set of styles, which can include graphics; a guide for creating a new document The word template is used in two ways.  Technical - a document with a special format that can be used to create a new document, without risk of changing the one used as the template.  General - any document that is used as a guide when creating a new document.

Templates A Word template can contain standard text and images that are intended to be part of every document made with the template. A template might just be a set of paragraph and character styles. For example, a letterhead could be saved as a template file, including your favorite paragraph styles and your company logo. Create a new document using this template and your letterhead material is already there! Just add the actual text of the letter. You used a template when you used AutoFormat to format an existing document, but only to apply the paragraph styles in the template.

Templates Word provides many templates:

Templates Letters:

Templates Résumés:

Templates Summary: Templates are used to set paragraph and character styles and to give a general layout for the document.

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