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184 Chapter 11 Designing Your Own Document Templates

Important: When selecting blocks of text to define as placeholder text, be careful not

to select the final paragraph break character. Doing so will cause the entire paragraph

to be deleted when the user begins typing in the placeholder text, and the new text

will take on the attributes of the following paragraph. To see the paragraph break

character as you work, choose View > Show Invisibles.

To remove placeholder text:

m Select it and press Delete.

Creating Placeholder Graphics

Placeholder graphics make it easy for you to size and position graphics correctly by

simply dragging them onto the placeholders you have created.

To create a placeholder graphic:

1 Place and size a placeholder image on the page (it might be a shaded box with

instructional text, for example).

2 Select the image and choose Format > Advanced > Define as Image Placeholder.

To make a placeholder image an ordinary image:

m Select it and then deselect “Define as Image Placeholder” in the choose Format >

Advanced submenu. (A selected item has a checkmark next to it; choose the item

again to deselect it.)

To delete a placeholder graphic:

m Select the image and press Delete.

Providing Page Designs for Expandable Templates

You may want to make your template expandable so that template users can simply

insert additional page designs you have created. The page designs are available using

the Pages command in the Insert menu (for more information, see “Expanding the

Template by Adding Pages” on page 31).

1 Design a layout of one or more pages, inserting a section break at the beginning and

end of the layout.

2 Choose Format > Advanced > Capture Pages. A dialog opens.

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