You can download free, pre-built document templates with useful and creative themes from Office when you click File > New in your Office app. Templates can include calendars, business cards, letters, cards, brochures, newsletters, resumes, cover letters , presentations, social media and much more.

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.

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

You can download free, pre-built document templates with useful and creative themes from Office when you click File > New in your Office app. Templates can include calendars, business cards, letters, cards, brochures, newsletters, resumes, cover letters , presentations, social media and much more.

Building templates table of contents. Add building blocks to a template. Building blocks are reusable pieces of content or other document parts that are stored in galleries to be accessed and reused at any time. You can also save building blocks and distribute them with templates.

Whether you’re starting from a Microsoft template or updating one of your own, Word's built-in tools help you update templates to suit your needs. To update your template, open the file, make the changes you want, and then save the template.

Visio is a diagraming tool that makes it easy and intuitive to create flowcharts, diagrams, org charts, floor plans, engineering designs, and more by using modern templates with the familiar Office experience. On this page, you can access some of the top templates and sample diagrams available in Visio, or request ones that you want.

Create a custom template. Click File > New and select a standard template that’s similar to what you want, such as Basic Diagram, Floor Plan, Basic Flowchart, etc. In the dialog box, select Create to open a new drawing file.

If you created a custom template in Word, you can use it in Word for the web after you save it as a document (.docx file) in OneDrive. The easiest way to do that is to start in Word on your desktop by creating a document based on your template.

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.