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See Also For information about creating your own templates, see the sidebar “Custom
Templates,” later in this chapter.
Tip New publications are continually being added to Office Online, so visit the site
occasionally to see what’s new.
● If you have an existing publication that is close enough in content and design to be
a good starting point, you can save a copy of that publication as the starting point
for the new one.
● If your content is in a Microsoft Word document, you can import the document into
Publisher and then lay out the text as you want it.
● If you want to manually design the publication, you can create a blank publication
and specify the page size you want.
See Also For information about creating a blank publication, see “Working with Text
Boxes” in Chapter 30, “Create Visual Interest.”Using Templates.
Creating a publication from a blank page is time-consuming and requires quite a bit of
design skill and knowledge about Publisher. Even people with intermediate and advanced
Publisher skills can save time by capitalizing on the work someone else has already done.
On the New page of the Backstage view, you can choose a publication type, preview
thumbnails of the available designs of that type, and experiment with different color
schemes and font schemes.
Tip The templates that come with Publisher, as well as those that are available from Office
Online, have associated keywords. You can type a keyword in the Search For Templates box
at the top of the Getting Started window and then click the Search button (the green arrow
to the right of the search location list) to display thumbnails of templates to which that
keyword has been assigned.
When you create a publication based on a template, you are not opening the actual
template file; instead, you are creating a new file that includes all the placeholders,
graphic elements, and formatting of the template. You customize the publication with
your own information, typing text and placing graphics and other elements in the
placeholders provided. The new file is temporary until you save it.