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Start with an Appropriate Template
The template is just a starting point.

The template is just a starting point.

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When you start with a template you save time. But sometimes templates that come with your software or are downloaded from the Web are almost, but not quite, right for your project.

The marketing flier seen in the illustrations in this tutorial starts out as a template from PrePage Templates for Adobe PageMaker by Chuck Green. In four easy steps explore ways to personalize this or any template with just a few changes to fonts, text formatting, and colors. A few tweaks to the template layout are also simple changes.

Download and Personalize Some of These Templates for Print & Web Publishing
  1. This page
  2. Change Fonts
  3. Change Text Formatting
  4. Change Colors
  5. Change the Layout
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