Creating documents based on templates

You can use a template as a starting point for a new document or apply it to an existing document.

To create a new document based on a template, do one of the following:

	Choose File > New From Template. In the dialog box that appears, choose a template and then click Select.
	Choose File > New to create a new document and then apply a template to it by dragging a template from the Template palette.

To apply a template to an existing Dreamweaver document:

Open the document. Then do one of the following:

	Choose Modify > Templates > Apply Template to Page. Choose a template from the list and click Select.
	Drag the template from the Template palette to the Document window.
	Select the template in the Template palette, and click Apply to Page.

When you apply a template to an existing document, the content in the template is added to the document.

If a document already has a template applied to it. Dreamweaver compares the editable region names of the two templates, and inserts the content of the new template into the region names with a match in the old template.

If any of the editable region names don't match, or if an editable region in the previous template doesn't have a corresponding region in the new template, a dialog box prompts you to delete the extraneous regions or transfer them to the new template. If there are more editable regions in the new template than in the old template, the additional regions will appear in the documents as placeholders.