Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Using Word's Built-In Template Library

When you create a new document, you're actually choosing a template on which your document will be based. The default Blank Document template that most people use is based on Word's Normal template, an especially important Word template that you'll learn more about shortly.

Word comes with more than 40 templates for the documents you're most likely to create. These templates can be used to create letters and mail merges, faxes, memos, reports, résumés, Web pages, brochures, manuals, and many other documents.

Most of Word's templates actually contain their own directions on how to use them most effectively. For example, the Report templates explain how to insert your own company name, create consistent bulleted ...