Using Existing Templates

Office supplies several common templates, and each Office product contains templates of its own. For example, when you want to create a new Excel electronic worksheet, you can select from a blank worksheet or you can click the Spreadsheet Solutions tab to see four icons that represent templates. When you click a template icon, Office shows you a preview of that template (as shown in Figure 1.10).

Figure 1.10. Office provides several templates that you can preview.

After you select a template, the Office program opens it and presents the file. Edit the template and save the details in a new file. The new file becomes your template file that you use for subsequent documents.