Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Manage Document Templates

Elsewhere in this book, we’ve touched on the concept of templates. Templates are Office files containing style definitions and/or content. Each program has template files, which can be identified by their file extensions, as shown in the following table.

Program	Extension	File types...
Word	.dotx	Word Template
	.dotm	Word Macro-Enabled Template
	.dot	Word 97–2004 Template
Excel	.xltx	Excel Template
	.xltm	Excel Macro-Enabled Template
	.xlt	Excel 97–2004 Template
PowerPoint	.potx	PowerPoint Template
	.potm	PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Template
	.pot	PowerPoint 97–2004 Template

Note

Entourage also includes templates for creating messages and other Entourage items.

You can use a template in two ways:

• You can use a template as a starter file by opening ...