How To Make Templates In Apple Pages

Add custom templates

If you lot create a document that you want to use once more as a model for other documents, you tin save it equally a template. Creating your own template can exist as simple as adding your visitor logo to an existing template, or you can blueprint a completely new template.

You can add together your custom template to the template chooser, or save it as 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

Annotation: If you transport a template in Mail or save 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.cipher" to install information technology and utilise it in Pages on your iOS device. To compress a file (.nil is a compressed file), Control-click the template file, so choose Shrink from the shortcut carte du jour.

Relieve a certificate equally a template

Choose File > Save as Template (from the File menu at the summit of your computer screen).
Click an option:
- Add together to Template Chooser: Blazon a name for the template, then press Return. Your template appears in the My Templates category in the template chooser.
- Save: Blazon a proper noun for the template, then cull where y'all want to salve it.
  
  If you lot save it to iCloud, the adjacent fourth dimension you open Pages on your iOS device, the template appears every bit a downloadable file in the document manager.

Create a template

When you create a new template, you start with an existing template (Blank, or whatever other template), make changes, then save it as a custom template. The original template remains unchanged. Custom templates appear in the My Templates category in the template chooser.

Annotation: Simply templates that appear in the template chooser can be edited. If you want to edit a custom template that'southward non in the template chooser, install information technology first (meet the tasks below to learn how).

In Pages, choose File > New (from the File menu at the top of your reckoner screen), so double-click the template you want to edit.
Do any of the post-obit:
- Create a media placeholder: Select an image, then choose Format > Avant-garde > Define every bit Media Placeholder (from the Format menu at the top of your computer screen).
- Create a text placeholder: Select the text, then choose Format > Advanced > Define as Text Placeholder (from the Format menu at the top of your estimator screen).
- Add a watermark or groundwork object: Select the text or object, then cull Accommodate > Section Masters > Move Object to Department Primary (from the Arrange menu at the top of your reckoner screen). See Place objects in the background to learn more than.
Choose File > Save as Template (from the File card at the top of your computer screen), so choose an option:
- Add to Template Chooser: Type a name for the template, so press Render. Your template appears in the My Templates category in the template chooser.
- Save: Type a name for the template, so choose where you want to relieve it.
  
  If you salvage it to iCloud, the template appears as a downloadable file in the certificate manager the next fourth dimension you open Pages on your iOS device.

If yous don't desire to keep the original template, you can delete it from the template chooser. Yous tin can't delete templates that came with Pages.

Install a template on your Mac

You can install a custom template saved to your figurer or to a server, or a template that you received every bit an attachment in an email, past calculation it to the template chooser in Pages.

Note: Skip this task if you lot 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"), so click Add to Template Chooser.

Yous can set Pages to always open a new document from the same template instead of from the template chooser. Choose Pages > Preferences (from the Pages bill of fare at the top of your computer screen). In the Full general pane, select "Apply template," then click Modify Template to select a template.

Install a template on your iOS device

On your iOS device, do the post-obit to install a template:

iCloud: If Pages is set up to apply iCloud on your device, the template appears automatically in the document manager and is identified past a template bluecoat. Tap the template thumbnail, then tap Add.
An email: From Mail, tap the attachment, tap (you may need to tap the screen to see the Share icon), tap Open up in Pages, then tap Open in Pages. Tap Add together.
A WebDAV server: Download the template from the server, tap (yous may need to tap the screen to run into the Share icon), and 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 proper noun, then cull Rename or Delete.
If you're renaming, type a new name, then printing Return.

Custom templates always announced in My Templates in the template chooser. You lot tin can't rearrange templates, and you can't delete templates that came with Pages.