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Document Templates help

Help for Document Templates in Work Planner.

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Email Message Editor

How to write an email template: its subject, the email itself with details filled in for each customer, the header and footer, testing it and where it’s used.

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Saved Sections

How to keep a section you’ve designed and add it to your other templates, website pages and blog posts, and how to rename or delete saved sections.

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Importing and Exporting Templates

How to download a document template’s design as a file, bring a design in from a file, and what doesn’t come across.

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Preview & Test Popup

How to preview a document template with one of your real records or example details, download it as a PDF, and email yourself a test.

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Version History Popup

How Work Planner keeps earlier versions of a document template’s design, and how to look at one and restore it.

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Moving Designs Between Editors

Which template editors a design can move between, what comes across when it does, and how Save as template keeps a copy of a design.

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Text Message Editor

How to write a text message template: adding details such as the customer’s name, how long the message is, the phone preview, drafts and saving.

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HTML Editor

How to write a document template in HTML: the code editor, suggestions for variables and repeating items, the live preview, drafts and saving.

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Simple Editor

How to write a letter-style template in the Simple editor: the letterhead and footer, the text toolbar, images, tables, variables, drafts and saving.

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Template Use, Page Size and Layout

What a template’s Used for, Page size and Layout settings do: printing and emailing, text messages, A4 and A5, and printing several documents to a sheet.

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Drag and Drop Editor

How to design a document template from blocks and sections: adding and arranging them, typing on the page, variables, the items table, styling, drafts and saving.

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Editing a Document Template

How a document template’s details page works: opening its editor, its name and description, page size and layout, how it’s used, and making it the default.

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Creating a Document Template

How to create a document template in the Create a template popup: starting from scratch in one of the editors, or from your own, Basic, Ready-to-use or System templates.

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Document Templates List

How the Document Templates list works: System and custom templates, finding a template, default templates, previews, duplicating, restoring a System template and deleting.

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