- [Instructor] Templates give you a starting point
when you make a new document
so that a lot of the work is done already.
I'll start by launching Word
so that we can start from the welcome screen.
Now, if Home is selected over on the left,
you have the option for a few templates on this first line,
but you could click More templates
or you could just click New over on the left side,
and now you have a lot more to choose from.
Now, let's say you had to write a business letter
in that case,
I might choose something like this letterhead template.
So I can click on that to get a preview of it.
And if I like it,
I can just click Create and start with that template.
So now I have this page that's already formatted
as a letter,
and you should really think of templates
as a starting point,
you don't have to use all of the layout,
formatting and design that you see here,
you can change anything,
But the way this placeholder text is set up is really nice.
You can just click on one piece of text
and you can very quickly type to replace it,
(typing sounds)
by doing that,
you could replace
all of the placeholder text in the document
with what you want.
Now let's go back and choose a different template.
If you're on a Mac,
you can go to the file menu and choose New from template.
But here on Windows,
I'm going to click the File button in the top left
to go to the backstage view.
Then I'll click where it says New over on the left.
And we see our templates.
Now, there are only about 20 templates here,
but there are more available.
There is a search field up here at the top,
and there are some suggested keywords
underneath that search field.
So you could search for something,
again, let's say I was trying to write a letter,
maybe I'll just use this keyword here for letters,
and I see a bunch of search results there.
Now, these search results include cover letters,
but I only want business letters.
Now, scrolling through the results,
I can see that some of them have this word letterhead.
So maybe that's actually what I want.
So let me go back to the search field
and I'm going to search for letterhead instead.
And these look like some good options.
So you may have to experiment
with some different search terms
to find what you're looking for.
And then from here,
you could choose a template as we did before,
or you could click this little pin on one of them
and that will pin that template.
So now if we click Back
next to the search field to clear that,
up at the top of this new document page,
I can see where I can make a new blank document,
I also see templates that I've used recently
and templates that I've pinned.
Now, if you want to unpin a template that you've pinned,
you can just click that pin icon here,
and it's no longer pinned,
but it is still there because it's considered
a recently used template.
If you want to clear templates
that you've used recently,
you can just right click on it
and choose Remove From List.
Okay, but let's do that search again.
I'll go back to that search field
and search for letterhead.
Then I'm going to choose one of these, it looks nice.
And I could do what we did before,
or I could just double click on it
for a faster way to start with that template.
And now I have a different template as a starting point,
and naturally I can click anywhere here
and I can type in my own text to replace the placeholder.
And remember, this is a new document.
So be sure to save it,
just like you would, if you created a new blank document.