Microsoft word 2010

Hi Alison

Thanks for your question - this second approach is simpler than the first. All you need to do is to create the document that you would like to use as a template for future documents. Include standard text, formatting tables and other items as you would do when creating any document. When you are ready to turn it into a template save the document using the template file type. You can see information about how to do this on the next page of the manual but in summary choose File > Save as then in the save as type part of the dialogue box set the type to template and save with an appropriate name.

Now when you go to File > New click on the icon for My Templates and you should see your template listed there. Double click it to make a new document based on your original template.

Let me know how this works for you and if you have any further questions.

Kind regards,
Andrew