Getting Started

Working with Template

What is Template?

Template means variety of styles and page layout settings that govern the layout and appearance of a drawing. You can use the default template or choose one from a wide variety of present templates available in the application. If none of the preset templates meets your requirements, you can create a template based on styles you create or styles taken from other templates. For example, if you regularly put together a newsletter, you can save the newsletter's page layout settings and styles to a template.

Creating New Template

When you create a new drawing using a template, CorelDRAW formats the page according to the template's page layout settings and then loads the template's styles into the new file.

You can edit a template by making changes to the styles, page layout settings, or objects. For example, if you like a template but want to make it more attractive, you can change styles that you have created or that you have taken from another template. For information about setting page layout options, see "Specifying the page layout."

After you have started a drawing with a template, you can load a different template. When you load a template, you can choose to load just the styles or to load styles, page layout settings, and objects.

To create a template

1. Click File-Save as.

2. Type a name in the File name list box.

3. Choose CDT - CorelDRAW template from the Save as type list box.

4. Locate the folder where you want to save the template.

5. Click Save.

To edit a template

1. Click File-Open.

2. Choose CDT - CorelDRAW template from the Files of type list box.

3. Locate the folder where the template is stored.

4. Double-click a template filename.

5. In the Open dialog box, enable the Open for editing check box.

To create a new file based on a saved template

1. Click File Open.

2. Choose CDT - CorelDRAW template from the Files of type list box.

3. Locate the folder where the template is stored.

4. Double-click a template filename.

5. Enable the New from template check box in the Open dialog box.

If, in addition to loading the template's styles, you also want to load page settings and objects, enable the contents check box.