[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In the New (or, in recent editions, Templates) dialog, select Blank Document
and the radio button for Template rather than Document. As Terry points out,
all templates are based on *something,* but basing a template on Normal.dot
(which you do if you select Blank Document) is as close as you can get to
creating one "from scratch."

As Terry mentions, you can also create a template based on a document by
saving the document as a template. There are a few differences between
creating a template "from scratch" (in the New/Templates dialog) and saving
a document as a template. The primary one is that anything that can be
stored only in a template (and not in a document) will be included when you
create a template from scratch. What this pretty much boils down to these
days is AutoText entries, with the Catch-22 that AutoText entries in
Normal.dot are *not* copied into a new template (if they were, they would be
duplicated on your AutoText menus). But if you have saved AutoText entries
in a specific document template and create a new template based on that one,
you will get them in the new template.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"sheana" wrote in message
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The book I have demontrates how to create a template from an existing one,
but how do you create one from scratch?