Step 4: Once you have modified the style, be sure to check New documents based on this template. When you close out of Word and reopen the program, you should see the changes that you made to the blank template normal. The Normal. Even though there is a template for Word document, you still can make any changes to Normal. However, if there is no template called normal. When you see the template you want to change and make it Word default template, double-click it to open.
Step 3: Make any changes that you want to the fonts, margins, spacing, and other settings. For example, perhaps you have a three-paragraph disclaimer. If you use the Group command to group the three paragraphs, the three-paragraph disclaimer cannot be edited and can be deleted only as a group.
Instructional text can enhance the usability of the template that you create. You can change the default instructional text in content controls. On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click Design Mode. On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click Design Mode to turn off the design feature and save the instructional text. You can add protection to individual content controls in a template to help prevent someone from deleting or editing a particular content control or group of controls, or you can help protect all of the template content with a password.
On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click Group , and then click Group again. In the Content Control Properties dialog box, under Locking , do any of the following:. Select the Content control cannot be deleted check box, which allows the content of the control to be edited but the control itself cannot be deleted from the template or a document that is based on the template.
Select the Contents cannot be edited check box, which allows you to delete the control but does not allow you to edit the content in the control.
Use this setting when you want to protect text if it is included. For example, if you often include a disclaimer, you can help ensure that the text stays the same, and you can delete the disclaimer for documents that don't require it. To assign a password to the document so that only reviewers who know the password can remove the protection, do the following:. On the Review tab, in the Protect group, click Restrict Editing. Type a password in the Enter new password optional box, and then confirm the password.
Important: If you choose not to use a password, anyone can change your editing restrictions. Use strong passwords that combine uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Weak passwords don't mix these elements. Strong password: Y6dh! Weak password: House Passwords should be at least 8 characters long. In general, longer a password is, the more secure it is. It is critical that you remember your password. If you forget your password, Microsoft cannot retrieve it.
Store the passwords that you write down in a secure place away from the information that they help protect. For example, a business plan is a common document that is written in Word.
Instead of creating the structure of the business plan from scratch, you can use a template with predefined page layout, fonts, margins, and styles. All you have to do is open a template and fill in the text and the information that is specific to your document. When you save the document as a. 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.
You can add protection to a section of a template, or you can apply a password to the template to help protect the contents of the template from changes. You can find Word templates for most kinds of documents on Office. If you have an Internet connection, click the File tab, click New , and then click the template category that you want.
You can also you can create your own templates. You can start with a blank document and save it as a template, or you can create a template that is based on an existing document or template. Make the changes that you want to the margin settings, page size and orientation, styles, and other formats. You can also add content controls such as a date picker, instructional text, and graphics that you want to appear in all new documents that you base on the template.
Give the new template a file name, select Word Template in the Save as type list, and then click Save. Click a template or a document that is similar to the one that you want to create, and then click Create New.
Make the changes you want to the margin settings, page size and orientation, styles, and other formats. You can also add content controls such as a date picker, instructional text, and graphics you want to appear in all new documents that you base on the 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. For example, you may create a report template that provides your template users with two cover letter types to choose from when they create their own report based on your template. Save and close the template that you have designed just the way you want it and to which you want to add building blocks for template users to choose from.
When you fill out the information in the Create New Building Block dialog box, in the Save in box make sure to click the template name. When you send or make the template available to others, the building blocks you saved with the template will be available in the galleries you specified.
You can offer flexibility to anyone who may use your template by adding and configuring content controls, such as rich text controls, pictures, drop-down lists, or date pickers. For example, you might provide a colleague with a template that includes a drop-down list, but your colleague wants to use a different set of options in the drop-down list in the document that he's distributing based on your template.
Because you allowed editing to the drop-down list when you added the content control to the template, your colleague can quickly and easily change the template to meet his needs.
To use content controls, you must convert the document to the Word file format by clicking the File tab, clicking Info , clicking Convert , and then clicking OK.
Under Customize the Ribbon , click Main Tabs. Second, you can remove any add-ins or templates that may be changing the global template. Third, you can help protect the computer from macro viruses that change the global template. Every time that you exit Microsoft Office Word or Word , you receive the following message:.
Do you want to save those changes? An add-in or a macro that is changing the global template is installed on the computer. For example, this issue may occur the Stamps. To work around this issue if the Prompt before saving Normal template option is turned on, follow these steps. If you turn off this option in Word, changes may still be made to the global template. However, you will not be prompted to save these changes.
We recommend that you perform the other workarounds that are mentioned later in this article. Under Save , click to clear the Prompt before saving Normal template check box. To work around this issue if add-ins or macros that are changing the global template are installed on the computer, use one of the following methods. When you start Word, Word automatically loads templates and add-ins that are located in the Office Startup folder and in the Word Startup folder.
You may experience the issue that is described in the "Symptoms" section if conflicts or problems occur with one of these items. To determine whether an item in a Startup folder is causing the issue, temporarily empty the folder.
To do this, follow these steps:. Exit all instances of Word. If you use Word as your e-mail editor in Microsoft Outlook, make sure that you also exit Outlook.
On the desktop, double-click My Computer , and then open the Office Startup folder. By default, the Office Startup folder is at the following location:. Drag each item from the Office Startup folder to the desktop. Or, create a folder on your desktop, and then drag each item to this new folder.
To create a new folder on the desktop, right-click a blank area on the desktop, point to New , and then click Folder. Drag each item from the Word Startup folder to the desktop. If you can no longer reproduce the issue after you removed multiple items from the Office Startup folder and from the Word Startup folder, add the files back to the appropriate Startup folder one at a time to isolate the issue.
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