a template is a pre-designed page layout
that you can use to create new documents
with the same formatting templates make
it easy for you to create documents
because the big design decisions such as
page layout fonts and margins have been
made to open an existing template click
the Microsoft Office button and select
new the new document dialog box appears
here you can select blank documents to
create a document from scratch or you
can look at templates templates are
available in two locations installed on
your computer or through the Microsoft
Office website there are many templates
installed with your version of Word and
hundreds more available online let's
take a quick look at the online
templates to access those all I need to
do is click any of the categories under
the Microsoft Office online heading as
you can see there are many types of
templates we have brochures calendars
flyers and more to look at any category
simply left-click it word uses your
browser to connect to Microsoft Office
online and displays the templates that
are available there once you find one
that you like click download and follow
the instructions that appear to use a
template that is already installed on
your computer
left click installed templates and the
templates appear in the window I want to
work on my resume so let's look for a
resume template that we like hmm I like
this one to select it simply left-click
the template and click create
the template opens in the word window
now I'm ready to get to work templates
come pre filled with placeholder text
that are surrounded by brackets often
this placeholder text gives us
information about what content should be
included in a certain area for example
it shows me here that I should include
my phone number and address
word also pre-fills some information we
can see that word has prefilled my name
in this area how does word know what
information to place there this is based
on information stored in word when your
computer is initially set up if the
information there is not correct you can
simply replace the text or you can
change it so that it will appear
correctly in additional templates you
use to change this information click the
Microsoft Office button and click word
options in the dialog box that appears
make sure the popular section is
highlighted change the user name I'm
going to change the first letter my
first names with capital J and the first
letter in my last name to a capital D
then I can simply click OK I'm ready to
enter some text place your insertion
point near the text you want to replace
notice how it's highlighted and has this
little tag on the end in templates
placeholder text is held in table cells
in templates there is no need to delete
placeholder text it simply disappears as
you type all you have to do now is type
the text you want to appear
sometimes templates give you other
options that can change the way the
template appears you'll know that a
template has extra options when you see
a drop-down arrow beside a section here
beside resume name we have a quick parts
section click the drop down arrows to
see the menu the template gives you two
choices of how to format the top of this
resume template we can choose to do it
with a photo or without a filter left
click one of the options to change the
template hmm my picture looks pretty
neat here but I think the standard
resume doesn't include a photo remember
just because you can do something or a
template includes something doesn't mean
that you should use it let's hit undo
and go back to the template without the
photo I'm going to go ahead and fill in
the rest of my text and then save my
document as my resume spend some time
exploring the word templates and then
take a closer look at the origin resume
to see how templates work