Templates and Styles

A template is a document that contains specific formatting styles, graphics, tables, objects, and other information. A template is used as the basis for creating other documents. For example, you can define paragraph and character styles in a document, save the document as a template, and then use the template to create a new document with the same styles.

Unless you specify otherwise, every new Office text document is based on the default template.

Office has a number of predefined templates that you can use to create different types of text documents, such as business letters.

Related Topics

• Using Styles From Another Document or Template
• Creating a Page Style Based on the Current Page
• Applying Styles in Fill Format Mode
• Creating New Styles From Selections
• Creating and Changing Default and Custom Templates
• Manage Templates