How To Open Up Templates In Pages

Add custom templates

If y'all create a document that you desire to utilise once again as a model for other documents, you can save it as a template. Creating your own template can be as simple equally adding your company logo to an existing template, or you lot tin pattern a completely new template.

You can add together your custom template to the template chooser, or save it equally a file to share with others or to install and use on your iOS device.

The template chooser with My Templates as a category on the left

Note: If y'all transport a template in Mail or relieve it to iCloud, the template is ready to install. If you save a template to a web server or upload it to webmail, the template file must have the file extension ".template.zip" to install it and use it in Pages on your iOS device. To compress a file (.aught is a compressed file), Control-click the template file, then choose Compress from the shortcut menu.

Salvage a document as a template

Choose File > Relieve as Template (from the File carte at the top of your computer screen).
Click an option:
- Add together to Template Chooser: Type a name for the template, then press Render. Your template appears in the My Templates category in the template chooser.
- Save: Type a proper name for the template, then choose where y'all want to save information technology.
  
  If y'all salve it to iCloud, the next time y'all open Pages on your iOS device, the template appears as a downloadable file in the certificate manager.

Create a template

When y'all create a new template, you start with an existing template (Bare, or any other template), make changes, then relieve it as a custom template. The original template remains unchanged. Custom templates appear in the My Templates category in the template chooser.

Note: Only templates that appear in the template chooser can be edited. If you want to edit a custom template that'due south not in the template chooser, install it first (see the tasks below to learn how).

In Pages, choose File > New (from the File card at the tiptop of your computer screen), then double-click the template you lot want to edit.
Do whatever of the following:
- Create a media placeholder: Select an paradigm, and then choose Format > Advanced > Define equally Media Placeholder (from the Format menu at the acme of your reckoner screen).
- Create a text placeholder: Select the text, then choose Format > Advanced > Define equally Text Placeholder (from the Format carte du jour at the tiptop of your computer screen).
- Add a watermark or background object: Select the text or object, so choose Arrange > Department Masters > Motility Object to Section Principal (from the Arrange carte at the acme of your computer screen). See Place objects in the background to learn more.
Choose File > Save as Template (from the File menu at the top of your estimator screen), then choose an option:
- Add to Template Chooser: Blazon a name for the template, and so press Return. Your template appears in the My Templates category in the template chooser.
- Relieve: Blazon a name for the template, then choose where y'all want to save it.
  
  If you relieve it to iCloud, the template appears as a downloadable file in the document director the adjacent time y'all open Pages on your iOS device.

If you don't want to go along the original template, y'all can delete information technology from the template chooser. You can't delete templates that came with Pages.

Install a template on your Mac

You tin can install a custom template saved to your computer or to a server, or a template that you received equally an zipper in an email, by calculation it to the template chooser in Pages.

Annotation: Skip this task if you chose Add to Template Chooser when you saved your custom template; it's already installed and can be plant in My Templates.

Double-click the template file (it has the file extension ".template"), and so click Add to Template Chooser.

You can set up Pages to e'er open up a new document from the aforementioned template instead of from the template chooser. Choose Pages > Preferences (from the Pages card at the acme of your figurer screen). In the Full general pane, select "Use template," then click Change Template to select a template.

Install a template on your iOS device

On your iOS device, do the following to install a template:

iCloud: If Pages is fix to use iCloud on your device, the template appears automatically in the document managing director and is identified by a template badge. Tap the template thumbnail, and so tap Add.
An electronic mail: From Mail, tap the attachment, tap (y'all may need to tap the screen to see the Share icon), tap Open up in Pages, and so tap Open in Pages. Tap Add.
A WebDAV server: Download the template from the server, tap (you lot may need to tap the screen to see the Share icon), then tap Open in Pages. Tap Add.

The template appears in the My Templates category in the template chooser.

Rename or delete a custom template

In the template chooser, Control-click the template name, then choose Rename or Delete.
If you're renaming, type a new name, then press Return.

Custom templates ever appear in My Templates in the template chooser. You tin't rearrange templates, and you tin't delete templates that came with Pages.