You click on the style here and I'm going to click + and I'm going to call this one My Format 2. So, for instance, I've created My Format 1 and I've set it to a special format. Templates are also a great way to have quick access to your formats or special styles that you create. But it is still great to put up there like if you wanted to put a date here at the top of your letter just to put it there to make it easier to select or hit the Set to Today button. Unfortunately this doesn't change to be the current day or current time so it is a little tricky. The thing about these are that you click on them and you can choose a format and you get to Set to Today or bring up a calendar view. So you can do text placeholders like this and you can do media placeholders like this. I can also drag and drop an image right into there. Now if I were to click that button it actually brings up the Media Browser and I can easily replace it. I can still replace it, of course, but if I go to Format, Advanced, Define as Media Placeholder then I get this button here at the bottom. That is actually then going to be there all the time. You see I put that in there and I save this as a template. So if there is some place in your document, for instance, where you wanted to put something where they replaced a photo. Probably would have been better if I used something like name so it would be easier to select. Notice here these are all placeholders so I can just click them and start typing. I don't start to edit it and accidentally replace the template. So that ensures that I don't save this template over itself. In fact if I go to save it just with a Command S here it is going to ask me for a name. Now if I were to select this and Choose a Template notice it didn't open it up as My Letter 2. So you can kind of keep things neat and organized in here by doing that. When you add to the Template Chooser you not only get to name it but while you are here, whether you just saved one or are opening a new one, you can Control Click on any of these to Rename or Delete them. So now I've created all this placeholder stuff and now I can do that same thing I did before and just do as Save as Template. Create that as one, that, that, only going to do this right here, and that. So now I can do that rather quickly with the rest of them. You can see there is a keyboard shortcut for that as well which is Control, Option, Command, T. Where I want to create a placeholder I select the text that is going to be the placeholder and I go to Format, Advanced and Define as Placeholder Text. I'm going to do a little formatting here moving this over to the right. I'm going to keep it pretty simple to give you the idea. I'm going to start here with the blank template and I'm going to put in different things here. Now it is pretty easy to create your own template from scratch. I hadn't changed any of these so they are still the placeholders and I can still continue and fill this out. I want to go and create my own letter here instead of selecting this one, Classic letter, and reentering my name and address again, I can go all the way to the bottom to My Letter or just select My Templates there and select this. So it won't be under Stationery but under My Templates and it gives me a chance to name it. This will bring up the Template Chooser but it will select the My Templates section. I can go and then say Save as Template under File.
So, for instance, let's say that I have all that done. Then I'm going to save it so that I don't have to type all that every time I create a new letter. You can create your own template with placeholders or you can customize this one.įor instance, instead of having this be a generic address here I'm just going to type in my address and then I'm going to create a new template.
The same thing with any of this stuff here. Now notice when you select a piece, like this area here, it comes up all selected and all you have to do is start typing one character and it replaces it. For instance, if you just wanted to write a letter you could select the letter template and all the pieces are here. When you go to open a new document in Pages you will see that you can create one that is blank or you can use a Template.
GET TO MY TEMPLATES IN WORD FOR MAC HOW TO
On today's episode let me show you how to create your own template in Pages. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Creating Templates in Pages at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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