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Step 1 - What is a Built-in Template ?

These often contain some text and much of the formatting you need to create common type of documents.

Word contains designer templates to help you create professional documents.

Word comes with 40+ built-in templates for documents you are likely to create.

These can be used to create all the common types of documents, such as letters, faxes, memos, reports, resumes, web pages, brochures, manuals and many others.

To view the templates that are available press (File > New), Task pane opens select "General Templates".

Step 2 - Location

Word 2003 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\

Word 2002 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\

Word 2000 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\

Word 97 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\

Step 3 - Available Templates

Step 4 - More Templates are Available

There are also a wide range of templates available from the Microsoft Office web site.

You can also download additional templates from the Microsoft Office Template Gallery, if you have access to the Web.

There is no way to save the actual template, but you can resave the document which is created as a template.

Step 5 - Things to Remember

When you pick a template and create a new document based on that template, the template remains "attached" to the document.