7 Steps to Add and Use Templates in Microsoft Word

Adding a template to Microsoft Word is useful for several reasons. In particular, doing this can help you create documents that need to be crafted in a certain type of format such as a resume or a marketing report and so on and so forth.

So, here is a list of 7 steps to add and use templates in Microsoft Word:

Step #1: Look for new templates online. One of the best sites that you can visit is the Microsoft Office website itself. Also, you can use search terms like ‘templates for MS Word’ and so on and so forth.

Step #2: Verify if the template is compatible with the version of Microsoft Word that is installed on your computer.

Step #3: Download the template to a location that you can remember easily until the moment when you will have to install the template.

Step #4: Now, find the ‘Templates’ folder for Microsoft Word and move the template that you just downloaded into this folder from the temporary one.

Step #5: Quit and restart Microsoft Word to avoid any possible glitches that might occur.

Step #6: Open a new Word document and click on the ‘File’ menu in order to open “Project Gallery”.

Step #7: Now go to the ‘Templates’ folder and select the template that you want to use. Remember that in using this template, you won’t be changing the original document that you had downloaded earlier. Simply put, this step enables you to use the format of the template itself in a new Word documents.