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Assigning a template to a content type

Assigning a template to a content type - SharePoint Tutorial

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Assigning a template to a content type

- [Instructor] When you add new content types to a library, it should give you some cool things in the New menu. Let's click the New menu here. And you see here where I can add a new Sales Document, a new Buffet Menu, a new Catering Proposal, all from the dropdown menu, and this is fabulous, except when we click New right now, we're getting a blank document. We actually wanted to pull up the template. In order to do that, we have to tell SharePoint, when we say New Sales Document, or we say New Buffet Menu, or we say New Catering Proposal, which template we want them to use. Now I'm going to apologize in advance for this because I don't agree with some of the way that the new interface is working, but we need to work with what we're given, so I'm gonna give you a couple of tricks. We need to capture the URL of each one of these document templates so we can assign it to the content type. And this is where it gets tricky, so I'm going to half screen my window here. I usually pull up…

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