How To Create Pages Template

Add custom templates

If you create a document that you desire to employ again as a model for other documents, yous can relieve information technology as a template. Creating your own template tin exist as simple equally adding your company logo to an existing template, or you tin pattern a completely new template.

You can add your custom template to the template chooser, or save information technology 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

Note: If yous ship a template in Post or relieve it to iCloud, the template is fix to install. If you save a template to a web server or upload it to webmail, the template file must take the file extension ".template.zero" to install it and use it in Pages on your iOS device. To shrink a file (.nix is a compressed file), Command-click the template file, then cull Compress from the shortcut menu.

Save a certificate equally a template

Choose File > Salvage equally Template (from the File menu at the top of your computer screen).
Click an option:
- Add to Template Chooser: Type a proper name for the template, and so printing Return. Your template appears in the My Templates category in the template chooser.
- Save: Blazon a name for the template, then cull where you want to save information technology.
  
  If you save information technology to iCloud, the next fourth dimension you open Pages on your iOS device, the template appears as a downloadable file in the document manager.

Create a template

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

Note: Only templates that announced in the template chooser tin can be edited. If you desire to edit a custom template that'southward not in the template chooser, install it beginning (see the tasks below to larn how).

In Pages, choose File > New (from the File carte at the top of your computer screen), so double-click the template yous want to edit.
Do any of the following:
- Create a media placeholder: Select an image, and then choose Format > Advanced > Define as Media Placeholder (from the Format menu at the pinnacle of your reckoner screen).
- Create a text placeholder: Select the text, and so cull Format > Advanced > Ascertain as Text Placeholder (from the Format carte du jour at the superlative of your computer screen).
- Add a watermark or background object: Select the text or object, and then choose Arrange > Department Masters > Move Object to Section Master (from the Arrange bill of fare at the top of your estimator screen). See Place objects in the background to learn more.
Choose File > Salve equally Template (from the File card at the top of your computer screen), and so choose an selection:
- Add to Template Chooser: Type a proper noun for the template, then printing Return. Your template appears in the My Templates category in the template chooser.
- Save: Type a proper name for the template, and so choose where yous want to save it.
  
  If you relieve it to iCloud, the template appears as a downloadable file in the document manager the next time y'all open Pages on your iOS device.

If you lot don't want to keep the original template, you tin can delete information technology from the template chooser. You lot 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 y'all received as an attachment in an email, past adding it to the template chooser in Pages.

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

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

You can set Pages to ever open a new certificate 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 General pane, select "Utilize template," so click Change Template to select a template.

Install a template on your iOS device

On your iOS device, exercise the post-obit 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 bluecoat. Tap the template thumbnail, and so tap Add.
An email: From Mail, tap the attachment, tap (you may demand to tap the screen to come across the Share icon), tap Open in Pages, then tap Open up in Pages. Tap Add.
A WebDAV server: Download the template from the server, tap (yous 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, so choose Rename or Delete.
If you're renaming, blazon a new name, and then press Return.

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