Creating a template document

When you create a new document, it is a copy of a template document
. Creating a new template document is an easy way to customize your documents. For example, you can customize a template by adding objects to it, changing the color or changing the various options such as font size.

To create a template document

1. From New submenu on the File menu, choose a suitable template on which to base your new template.

2. Make the changes to the document as necessary. For example by adding a logo or changing the paper size, font face, text size etc. (see the tips section below). See Options for details of some of the options you can change.

3. From the File menu, choose Save Template (giving your template a suitable file name). Click Help on the Save Template dialog box for more details of available options.

Once saved, your new template will be available from the New submenu on the File menu.

Tips

You can alter many settings for your new template document. Say you wish to change the default font face and size—select the Text Tool, then select a new font. As you have no text selected you will be prompted to make "the font typeface attribute a current text attribute". Click Set and that font will now be the default for that template. Repeat for font size, colors and anything else you wish to make as the default attributes in your new template.

Note that you can have a maximum of 12 template documents.

Templates are regular files. You can delete unwanted templates exactly like other files. For more details of deleting files see the Windows Help available from the Start button.

If you accidentally delete the animation template you can either recreate it from an ordinary animation document or reinstall Xara LX.

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Saving a template