iWork '09: The Missing Manual

Chapter 10. Streamline Your Projects: Creating Templates

You’ve undoubtedly used—and come to appreciate—Pages’ timesaving templates. They range from very simple, like Classic Letter, to the complex, multipage layouts of the various newsletters. But whether plain or intricate, they all share the same purpose: to get you started on a document quickly, with a large part of the formatting already in place—so you can concentrate on the content instead of the layout. This chapter shows you how to make your own templates so you can add them to Pages’ Template Chooser, the design roster you learned about way back on Using Templates for Ready-to-Go Documents.