Master page concepts, creation, and application

- [Voiceover] Let's say that you decide…that you want to have the standard header, or footer,…or some standard body content in…every single topic in your project.…You could create this one topic at a time,…but that's pretty inefficient.…A better approach is to create a template,…called a Master page, in which you can…specify the header, and/or footer,…and/or the body content,…and apply it to every single topic at once.…Much more efficient way to do it.…Let's see how to create one of these templates,…again, called a master page.…

We're going to create a template, a master page,…that has a company name in the header,…and a copyright statement in the footer.…To do this, the first thing I need to do…is select edit, pods, output set up.…On the output set up pane, I'm going to right-click…on master pages, and select new master page.…It's now asking me for the name of the master page,…which I am going to call Linda Master Page.…

I can also apply a stylesheet to it, right here,…by clicking the appearance tab, which I will do,…