Using and applying templates

There are lots of templates available that come with Word.…Remember, a template creates a new document based upon the template's…formatting, styles, building blocks, boilerplate text, macros, and so forth.…Keep in mind that templates can contain any of the settings a document can, as…well as any type or length of boilerplate text.…Using a template is insanely easy,…so let's get started.…If you go to File > New, or Backstage and New, you can see all different kinds of…templates that come with Word.…

The first you see is a blank document.…It's the same as doing Control+N on your keyboard.…Next, you see Blog Post for creating blog posts, all your recent templates,…sample templates that come with Microsoft that are installed on your hard drive,…and then you have My Templates.…My Templates is a list of templates created and/or customized by you, and saved…to your computer. And then you also have New from existing.…This allows you to create a new template based on another document, or another template.…