Saves the document as a template that you can use to start new documents. Saves document content and settings such as styles, page layout, AutoText entries, custom keyboard shortcut assignments, and menus.

Select File > Get Add-ins. Alternatively, you can also view your add-ins directly from the Home tab by selecting Add-ins. You can directly install add-ins from this page or select More Add-ins to explore. In the Office Add-ins dialog, select My Add-ins tab.

Templates can store styles, AutoText entries, AutoCorrect entries, macros, toolbars, custom menu settings, and shortcut keys. Loading a template makes it available as a global template that you can use while you work with documents based on any other template.

Open the template or a document based on the template whose default settings you want to change. On the Format menu, click Document , and then click the Layout tab. Make any changes that you want, and then click Default .

Make your templates flexible by adding and configuring content controls, such as rich text controls, pictures, drop-down lists, or date pickers. For example, you might create a template that includes a drop-down list.

Go to C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. Open the Normal template (Normal.dotm). Make any changes that you want to the fonts, margins, spacing, and other settings.

Recover your custom templates. Learn how to find your custom templates created with earlier versions of Office and access a custom templates location.

Download free, pre-built templates. Free background templates for PowerPoint. Edit templates. Want more options? Learn how to edit, save, and create a template in Office. You can create and save a template from a new or existing document or template.

If you are experiencing any of the symptoms below, please follow the steps below to convert the files from .doc to .docx and if the workbooks (.doc) contain macros, you can convert them to .docm. Slowness while opening workbooks with .doc extension. Bigger file size with .doc extension.

When you save the document as a .docx or .docm file, you save your document separately from the template on which it is based. In a template, you can provide recommended sections or required text for others to use, as well as content controls such as a predefined drop-down list or a special logo.