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870 Chapter 29 Get Started with Publisher 2010

Custom Templates

Throughout Part 8 of this book, you’ll learn techniques for personalizing the con-

tent and layout of publications. If you create a special publication that you might

want to use as the basis for future publications, you can save the publication as a

custom template and then use it just as you would an installed or online template.

To save a publication as a template:

1. In the left pane of the Backstage view, click Save & Send.


2. In the File Types section of the Save & Send page, click Change File Type.


3. In the Publisher File Types section of the Save Publication list, click Template
   (*.pub).


4. At the bottom of the Save Publication list, click the Save As button.
   The Save As Template dialog box opens, displaying the contents of your
   default Templates folder.
   Important You can change the location in which you save your template, but if
   you do so, it will not appear in the My Templates category of the New page in the
   Backstage view. If you store a template in a different folder, you can create a pub-
   lication based on the template by browsing to that folder in Windows Explorer
   and double-clicking the template file.


5. In the File Name box, type a generic name for the publication template.


6. If you want to assign the template to a specific template category, click the
   Change button. In the Template Category dialog box that opens, select
   the category from the list. Then click OK.
   Tip On the My Templates page, you can change the category of a template by
   right-clicking the template and then clicking Edit Category.


7. In the Save As Template dialog box, click Save.
   To create a new publication based on the custom template:


8. On the New page of the Backstage view, click My Templates.
   The My Templates page displays templates stored in the default Templates
   folder, organized by category.


9. In the center pane, click the template you want, and then click Create.
   Publisher opens a new publication based on your custom template.
   The simplest way to change a custom template after you save it is to create a publica-
   tion based on the template, make the changes, and then save the revised publication
   as a template with the original template name, overwriting the old one.