Here is my article on Templates, which is likely more than you need. Understand Word and have great experience with and knowledge of how it works on the Mac. That is what John and Bob are getting at. If you already have text in another document, you can copy the existing text into the new document. In Word you can get the design elements from a template by creating a new document based on that template. What is the relationship between a Microsoft Word document and its template? For a full explanation of how templates and documents relate, see
