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AppleWorks 6: How to Set up Default Templates for Specific Document Types
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If you typically use particular content and formatting options for a particular document type, you can set up a default template for that document type. Default templates are also known as Options documents.
Products Affected
AppleWorks
Creating a default template
To create a default template document for a specific document type:
The next time you create a new document of that type, your new default template opens. You can still open a document with standard formatting options (instead of the options you created in your default template). To do so, click the Standard button for the desired document type (for example, Standard WP) on the Basic panel of the Starting Points window.
Some versions of AppleWorks 6 automatically append the template filename with ".cws". If the default template does not open as expected, locate the file in the Templates folder using the Finder, and delete the .cws filename extension if present.
Important: Your default template is saved in the AppleWorks Templates folder. If you move the template to another folder, it will no longer function as the default template.
Deactivating a default template
If you no longer want to use a default template document for a document type, you can deactivate it.
To deactivate a default template:
To create a default template document for a specific document type:
- 1. Prepare a document that contains all the text, graphics, and formatting options you want to be a standard part of the template.
- For word-processing documents, type AppleWorks WP Options.
- For spreadsheet documents, type AppleWorks SS Options.
- For presentation documents, type AppleWorks PR Options.
- For database documents, type AppleWorks DB Options.
- For drawing documents, type AppleWorks DR Options.
- For painting documents, type AppleWorks PT Options.
2. Choose Save As from the File menu.
3. Enter the appropriate name for the document:
5. Use the controls in the Save dialog box to navigate to the Templates folder (located in the Starting Points folder, which is in the AppleWorks folder).
6. Click Save.
The next time you create a new document of that type, your new default template opens. You can still open a document with standard formatting options (instead of the options you created in your default template). To do so, click the Standard button for the desired document type (for example, Standard WP) on the Basic panel of the Starting Points window.
Some versions of AppleWorks 6 automatically append the template filename with ".cws". If the default template does not open as expected, locate the file in the Templates folder using the Finder, and delete the .cws filename extension if present.
Important: Your default template is saved in the AppleWorks Templates folder. If you move the template to another folder, it will no longer function as the default template.
Deactivating a default template
If you no longer want to use a default template document for a document type, you can deactivate it.
To deactivate a default template:
- 1. Quit AppleWorks.
2. Open the Templates folder (in the Starting Points folder).
3. Delete, rename, or move the default template document for the document type. (See above for the names of default template documents for each document type.)
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