Edit Linked Document Templates

To develop the contents of a linked document template, held in the Resources window, you use the Linked Document Template Editor. This opens the Document - Edit ribbon, which provides access to a wide range of convenient features for formatting and editing the template, and for adding links from and references to the content of the documents generated from the template. An in-text context menu also provides editing options for the template.

Access

Within the Resources window, click on 'Linked Document Templates > (template group) > Right-click on template name | Open'

Ribbon

Start > Explore > Browse > Resources

Show > Portals > Window > Explore > Resources

Option Descriptions

The Linked Document Template Editor option descriptions are grouped according to the actions you are performing.

Actions	See also
Creating and importing template documents	File Control
Configuring the editor display	Editor Tool Display Options
Incorporating stylesheets, special texts and Tables of Contents Managing the base styles in the Normal.rtf style template file	Styles, Special Texts & Table of Contents The Normal.rtf Style Template
Moving through, searching and selecting text	Scroll, Search and Select Text
Formatting characters and text strings	Format Text
Formatting paragraphs and text blocks	Format Paragraphs
Inserting tab points	Set Tabs
Inserting sections, columns and page breaks, and repaginating	Manage Page Breaks Define Document Sections
Inserting and editing page headers and footers, and footnotes and endnotes	Insert Headers, Footers, Footnotes and Endnotes
Inserting tables	Create Tables
Inserting hyperlinks	Insert Reference Links
Checking spelling and use of terms	Checking Text
Tracking, accepting and rejecting changes to text	Track Changes
Protecting template text from accidental change	Protect Document Contents
Inserting images, OLE objects, frames and drawing objects	Insert Images, Objects and Frames
Printer setup and printing documents	Print Report Documents

Notes

Throughout your template editing:
     - To undo one or more immediately previous edits, press Ctrl+Z, or select the 'Undo' context menu
        option; you can still undo a change even after you have saved the change
     - To redo one or more immediately previous undone edits, press Ctrl+Y, or select the 'Redo' menu
        option

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