How To Create A New Document From A Saved Template

Learning Objectives

Create document from template.

A template is a pre-created document that already has some formatting. Rather than starting from scratch to format a document, yous can use the formatting of a template to salve yourself a lot of time. Y'all can utilize a template that comes with Discussion, download 1 from the internet, or create your own. For now, we'll focus on creating a document from a template that comes with Discussion.

From the backstage view (File tab), yous can curlicue downward and run across what templates are bachelor.

The backstage view of a Microsoft Word document is displayed.

Nigh the acme of the screen is a search box and some suggested searches. Y'all can type a word or click on i of the suggested searches to help find a suitable template for your project. For example, clicking the suggested search "Concern" will take you lot to templates related to business, with farther subcategories on the correct. (Meet beneath.)

The backstage view of a Microsoft Word document is displayed. The option to create a new template is listed with options such as: business, marketing, project to choose from amongst others.

Select a template, then click Create. You lot may take to await a moment for the template to download.

Once the template is open, you can replace the placeholder text with your ain text.

A Microsoft Word document has been opened with a business template being displayed.

Practice Question

Creating a Document from a Downloaded Template

Start, download the template. You may download a template from this course or from Microsoft's template page. Note that the file extension for a template is .dotx, which is different than the file extension for a normal Word document. In fact, if you save any document with the file extension .dotx, that document will become a template.

Double-click on the downloaded template in File Explorer to open Give-and-take and create a new document based on the template. Any changes y'all make to this new certificate will not touch the original template; the new document is merely a re-create.

To edit the template itself, open Word and get to File>Open>Browse, and then select the downloaded template. Opening the template file this way opens the bodily template, so whatsoever changes will be reflected in futurity documents y'all create from this template.