Chapter 10. Using and Creating Project Templates

In this chapter

About Templates 298

Starting a New Document Based on a Template 300

Accessing Workgroup Templates 304

Downloading Templates from Office Online 306

Modifying Templates 308

Creating Your Own Templates 310

Changing a Document’s Template 312

Troubleshooting 315

About Templates

Templates are specifications on which documents are based. So far you have been working with Normal.dotm, the default template for Word 2007 documents. If you don’t specify otherwise, Word always bases new documents on that template. It consists of a blank document (no default content) with 1” margins on all sides, single-spaced text with no extra spacing between paragraphs, and Calibri 11-point text. But a template ...

Get Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Word 2007 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.