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(Athenaeum) Microsoft Publisher 2007: Using Publisher Templates

Final updated Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, at x:34 a.m.

This article is based on legacy software.

A template is a certificate with pre-defined formatting and settings. For example, if yous were creating a newsletter, you lot could set the margins, columns, and guides where they need to exist and salve the file. Y'all could then use that aforementioned file to create all your issues, building from the foundation yous had saved; this way, every effect would be consistent.

If none of the existing Publisher templates fit your needs, y'all tin can create and change your own template. The same template tin be used over and over once again without making changes to the original. This certificate covers the following topics:

Using a Publisher Template

Publisher comes with an assortment of templates from brochures to newsletter designs. You lot can work with these templates or modify them to run into your needs.

From the File menu, select New...
The Getting Started with Microsoft Publisher 2007 screen appears.
Under Pop Publication Types, select a category of templates
The gallery appears for the category you chose.
From the gallery, select a template
The Customize job pane appears at the right, along with a dynamic preview of your choice.
Note: Depending on the blazon of template you cull, an Options pane may appear with options specific to that category (e.one thousand. time frames for calendars.)
Using the drib-down menus on the Customize pane, make the desired changes to your template
OPTIONAL: To make additional changes to the design, use the corresponding Options task pane
When you are done, click CREATE
Your new document opens in a project window.

Creating Your Own Template

If y'all create a publication design that yous will exist using repeatedly, you can save the design format as a template.

Create a new Publisher document
Establish the layout
EXAMPLE: Set up ruler and column guides, place graphics, define styles
From the File menu, select Save As...
The Save As dialog box appears.
In the File proper noun text box, type a name for the template
From the Save equally blazon pull-downwardly list, select Publisher Template (*.pub)
The Save in location is now inverse to the Templates binder.
Click SAVE

Using Your Template

When you salvage a new template in Publisher 2007, the default salvage directory is a specific spot for templates. After y'all take saved a template, you tin merely employ the My Templates category on the New Publications task pane to admission it. You tin can use a template once more and again for different publications. Each time you open the template, Publisher will open a copy of the certificate and not the original. Any changes made to the copy of the template volition need to exist saved under a different proper noun.

From the File carte, select New...
The Getting Started with Microsoft Publisher 2007 screen appears.
On the New Publications pane, nether the Microsoft Publisher section, click MY TEMPLATES
The My Templates gallery appears.
NOTE: Y'all must take created and saved a template in Publisher before you can access the My Templates gallery. If you take not done and then, Publisher will alert you with a text box accordingly.
Select your template
Click CREATE
A re-create of the template opens.
Develop your document
To save the changes to the document,
1. From the File menu, select Save As...
  The Salvage As dialog box appears.
2. From the Save in pull-down listing, select a saving location
3. In the File proper name text box, blazon a name for the document
4. Click SAVE

Modifying Your Template

If you discover that y'all need to brand a few changes to your existing template, you tin make changes to the original document without having to create a new 1.

From the File menu, select Open...
The Open Publication dialog box appears.
NOTE: The location of the Templates binder may vary depending on your computer setup. On campus, the default save directory for templates in Publisher 2007 is
C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.
Make any desired changes to the template
On the Standard toolbar, click Salvage
Your original template is saved.

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