From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Document Creation and Automation

What is a template? - SharePoint Tutorial

From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Document Creation and Automation

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What is a template?

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- [Instructor] Have you ever found yourself creating the same type of document over and over again? Or possibly taking an old document, copying and pasting, and replacing information and then saving it as a new file. A template is a document that contains styling, images, and other elements that help you streamline the creation of new documents, and provide consistency for your documentation. Think of a template as a master file that you can create, save and reuse. When you create a new document from a template, it makes a copy, but leaves the original master intact. For our Landon Hotel events team, we have several documents that we mix and match when we are planning and executing a new event at the hotel, including a sales lead form, a banquet event order, a catering proposal, and a catering agreement. To help out the team, we're going to go ahead and create a template repository. Templates are a great way to standardize your documentation. Take a look around you in your daily work, and see if there are some documents that you create consistently, and see if it makes sense to turn them into templates.

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