Create a Personalized Project Template

In addition to using the Project Gallery templates, you can create your own. If you routinely create the same type of document, such as a monthly financial report, you can create and format the document once and then save it as a template on which to base future versions of that type of document. You can save your new template with text in it, which is handy if you create many documents with only slight variations. Or you can delete the text so that a document based on it will open as a new, blank document with the styles already defined and ready to apply to whatever content you enter.

To save even more time, you can create a document based on one of the project templates, modify it—for example, by adding ...

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