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<bookmark_value>organizing; templates (guide)</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149635" role="paragraph">A template is a document that contains specific formatting styles, graphics, tables, objects, and other information. A template is used as the basis for creating other documents. For example, you can define paragraph and character styles in a document, save the document as a template, and then use the template to create a new document with the same styles.</paragraph>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149957" role="paragraph">Unless you specify otherwise, every new $[officename] text document is based on the default template.</paragraph>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149974" role="paragraph">$[officename] has a number of predefined templates that you can use to create different types of text documents, such as business letters.</paragraph>
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