Okay, so that is enough about document preset, but let us take this even further. What about templates? Because document presets can only remember attributes such as the page size and number of pages, margins and so on. However, what would happen if you wanted some extra guides, maybe some pre-existing content, maybe some logos as a part of a document template. Well in that case, you would actually want to create a template.
So, we will create something really simple here for example, I might pull down a couple of ruler guides. This can be really at any random location and imagine that is my new template that I want to use on future document. So, I will just choose file, save as, let us navigate to the desktop and I will navigate to my project files, part one, lesson four. And here, I can save this template. I will just call this template.indd. And here at the bottom, there is one more important step that will save you a little of a time.
Instead of saving this as an InDesign document, notice the file extension appear as INDD. I will save it as an InDesign template and it will change to INDT in InDesign template. Go ahead and click save and notice that your template here is saved with the INDT extension and notice here that the document window has a slightly different icon indicating that this is a template. Now, working with template is slightly different. Let me show you what I mean. Let us close this document. It has already been saved. Now, to create a new document from a template, there is a couple of ways to do this. You could choose file, open and we will navigate to lesson four of part one of our project files and we will choose template.indt.
Now, if we open our template with a normal mode and click open, you will notice that the document opens with an untitled file name. That means we have opened a copy of this template. We are not actually editing the template. We are making a new document based on the template. Let us close up this one and try again in a slightly different way. Again, choose file, open, we will select the InDesign template. Now, you maybe wondering how do I ever change a template. Well in that case, you would choose, open original here at the bottom. So, we are opening the original document. We are not editing it in a normal template mode and click open.
Now, you can see here that we have template.indt open. If I grab my black arrow tool, my selection tool, maybe I want to move this ruler guide over to actually change that template. Now, I will press command S or control S on Windows, you can see that the little icon here changes from shaded out to solid indicating that the files are saved. And from here on out, every time somebody opens this template, will use this new version. So go ahead and close this document again and just one last option to be aware of related to templates. Again, choose file, open, select any file and if you want to open any file as if it were a template, you can choose open copy. That will not open the original file, that will just another copy of it as if it were a template.
At this point, let us go ahead and click cancel, one last option. File new, document from template. This will open Adobe Bridge CS3 for you and open the InDesign templates folder and here you can see all sorts of subfolders of InDesign templates. Just double click any one of these folders. You can use the slider at the bottom to change the nail sizes and in this case, we have several brochure templates built in. I can navigate up, double click another folder. In here, we have several templates for creating books with InDesign. So, you have several options for creating your own template or you can access the templates that are included with InDesign CS3 to get you up and running.
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