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11 Designing Your Own

Document Templates

This chapter is for designers who want to create

their own document templates.

This chapter assumes you are already familiar with the design and formatting features

of Pages described in earlier chapters.

The templates that come with Pages provide ideas for page designs, and also define

the look of charts, tables, and text. Within each template, the following attributes can

be defined:

Â Page orientation

Â Page margins

Â Page numbering

Â Background graphics (watermarks)

Â A variety of text styles, including body text, headers, footers, callouts, and so on

Â Table of contents styles

Â Bullet and numbering styles

Â Object fills and line styles for drawn objects

Â Chart colors and styles

Â Look of tables

Â Additional template page designs

You can modify any of these attributes to create your own templates. Creating your

own template can also be as simple as selecting an existing template and adding your

company logo to the page.

If you want to customize an existing template—for example, by adding images,

changing the placeholder text, or defining new text styles—see the relevant sections

in this chapter, and then read “Step 4: Saving a Custom Template” on page 186.

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