Google Templates

Posted on July 16, 2008

You’ve got a job to do and Google docs is the place you go to do it. But when you get there, you are presented with a blank form. It’s hard to start with a blank document, especially when it should have some sort of standard format. Relief is here. Now you can use one of the over 300 templates from the new Google Docs directory as a starting point for your work, whether you are doing resumes, photo albums, party invitations, or invoices for billing.

“A template gives you a quick start towards creating a document, spreadsheet, or presentation. Each template has boilerplate content and preset design styles that are meant to be reused. (…) You can then edit the document, replacing text and images with your own,” explains Google.

The option to use a template is available in Google Docs when you click on New > From template and the list of templates that you’ve recently used can be found here.

While Google doesn’t offer an option to create your own templates, you can save them as regular documents and use File > Save as new copy (Copy spreadsheet) to create duplicates. If you publish a spreadsheet, append &newcopy to the URL to obtain a template link.