# Templates and Styles

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formatting styles; styles and templates
styles; styles and templates
organizing; templates (guide)
templates; organizing (guide)
Templates and Styles
A template is a document that contains specific formatting styles, graphics, tables, objects, and other information. A template is used as the basis for creating other documents. For example, you can define paragraph and character styles in a document, save the document as a template, and then use the template to create a new document with the same styles.
Unless you specify otherwise, every new $[officename] text document is based on the default template.
$[officename] has a number of predefined templates that you can use to create different types or text documents, such as business letters.
Viewing and Organizing Styles in Templates
- Use the Template Management dialog to copy styles from one document to another.
- To copy a style, drag it to another template or document.