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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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Document template preview and send workflow

OverviewThis article explains when to use document template preview and send workflow, what the focused step is designed to achieve, and what to review before confirming the action.When to use thisUse this article when t

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Editing a document template

OverviewThis article explains how to use editing a document template in Work Planner, including the main fields that shape how the document templates record behaves once it is saved.When to use thisUse this article when

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Creating a document template

OverviewThis article explains how to use creating a document template in Work Planner, including the main fields that shape how the document templates record behaves once it is saved.When to use thisUse this article when

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