You can see there is a keyboard shortcut for that as well which is Control, Option, Command, T.

Where I want to create a placeholder I select the text that is going to be the placeholder and I go to Format, Advanced and Define as Placeholder Text. I'm going to do a little formatting here moving this over to the right. I'm going to keep it pretty simple to give you the idea. I'm going to start here with the blank template and I'm going to put in different things here. Now it is pretty easy to create your own template from scratch.

I hadn't changed any of these so they are still the placeholders and I can still continue and fill this out. I want to go and create my own letter here instead of selecting this one, Classic letter, and reentering my name and address again, I can go all the way to the bottom to My Letter or just select My Templates there and select this. So it won't be under Stationery but under My Templates and it gives me a chance to name it. This will bring up the Template Chooser but it will select the My Templates section. I can go and then say Save as Template under File. So, for instance, let's say that I have all that done. Then I'm going to save it so that I don't have to type all that every time I create a new letter. You can create your own template with placeholders or you can customize this one.įor instance, instead of having this be a generic address here I'm just going to type in my address and then I'm going to create a new template. The same thing with any of this stuff here. Now notice when you select a piece, like this area here, it comes up all selected and all you have to do is start typing one character and it replaces it.

For instance, if you just wanted to write a letter you could select the letter template and all the pieces are here.

When you go to open a new document in Pages you will see that you can create one that is blank or you can use a Template. On today's episode let me show you how to create your own template in Pages. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Creating Templates in Pages at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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