[Answered] [Publisher] Is there a way to create page templates?

[Friksel]

I'm using masterpages for general layout for letters with address and stuff like that pre-printed on it.

Than I have some masterpages using the first masterpage as described above and put preformatted labels on top of that default letter layout.
With this I created a new masterpage for startPage, middlePage and endPage of a letter to a client.

I pre-created some pages using these startPage, middlePage and endPage masterpages with content printed on top it for the letter-body and values after the pre-printed labels, like subject of the letter and to-address.

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But now I'd like to put a new type of letter-layout, also based on the same letter-layout, in the same file. This time not a general letter-layout, but an invoice layout. So I will create some additional masterpages also using the bass masterpage, but this time with a toplayer with different pre-printed labels on it, like prices and tables or whatever.

And for this invoice layout I now also need to add a dummy layout page to be ready to override when I use this layout to create an invoice.

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Now I'd also like to add some other specific letter layouts to the file. Also based on the first masterpage. So again I need to create some pages with the right layout already filled in with dummy text as a placeholder for when it gets used.

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If I like to use this file in practise it's full of all kind of pages I will only need 1, 2 or 3 off. So I would copy my main afPub-file with all layouts in it to a new file. Than I have to delete all pages I don't need for this letter, write the contents over the dummy content and export it to a pdf to send it.

But if I'd like to use some page-templates later they are gone from this file (because I'd deleted them), so I need to copy them over from the main-file again somehow. That's not very practical and efficient and quick.

While this is doable, I wonder if there isn't a better and more efficient and convenient workflow to do this. For this it would be nice to have a way to create page-templates. So to store the pre-created dummy template-pages inside a page-templates-list. That way we could keep our pages list empty and pick the page-template we would like to use from the templates when we need it.

I'd like to paste this to the feature request forum, but I'm not sure if something like this doesn't already exist in Publisher.

Does anybody here knows if something like this is build into Publisher already?

Thanks in advance!

[walt.farrell]

I don't think anything like that exists, but I wonder why you're deleting the Master Pages that you didn't need. I would just ignore them.

You don't need to create any dummy document pages ahead of time. When you want a document page that will use one of the Master Pages, just add the new page and tell Publisher which Master to use.

[Friksel]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I don't think anything like that exists, but I wonder why you're deleting the Master Pages that you didn't need. I would just ignore them.

You don't need to create any dummy document pages ahead of time. When you want a document page that will use one of the Master Pages, just add the new page and tell Publisher which Master to use.

Yeah, now I understand the possibilities of master pages in Publisher better. They are obviously much more useful and versatile than in other software I used.

So with your help I found my way now and I'm going to use master pages in just one document to accomplish what I'm after!