Saving Timewith Templates

Tap into template power

Save time with templates

While you may have worked in Word, you might not be so familiar with Word templates.

What’s a template, and how can it help you?

A template is a type of document that already contains a set layout and contains some content. Using a template can help save you time.

Find installed templates

Save time with templates

Word includes over 30 pre-installed templates for document types such as letters, faxes, reports, resumés, greeting cards, calendars, flyers, brochures, blog posts, etc.

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Click the Microsoft Office Button, and click New.

In the New Document window, click Installed Templates.

Find installed templates

Save time with templates

Word includes over 30 pre-installed templates for document types such as letters, faxes, reports, resumés, greeting cards, calendars, flyers, brochures, blog posts, etc.

3 Click one of the thumbnails, and see its preview on the right.

4 When you’ve found the template you want, click Create.

A new document opens that’s based on the template, and you make the changes to it that you want.

Find Office Online templates

Save time with templates

The steps for opening templates from the Office Online Web site are very similar.

As the animation shows, you open the New Document window, but in this case you look in the area under Microsoft Office Online.

Click a category to see thumbnails. To download a template, select the thumbnail and click Download.

Animation: Right-click, and click Play.

Find Office Online templates

Save time with templates

The steps for opening templates from the Office Online Web site are very similar.

You open the New Document window, but in this case you look in the area under Microsoft Office Online.

Click a category to see thumbnails. To download a template, select the thumbnail and click Download. A template opens as a fresh new document on your computer for you to add to as you want and then save.

A template’s special power

Save time with templates

When you open a template, a new document opens that’s based on the template you selected.

So you’re opening a copy of the template, not the template itself.

And that’s a template’s special power: It opens up a copy of itself, with everything it has in it to a new, fresh document.

You work in that new document, with everything that was built into the template, plus adding or deleting what you need to.