Pagesmith doesn’t create new documents from scratch. Rather, it opens existing documents. If a document is stored in your Document Styles folder, Pagesmith opens it as a copy. So, when you start Pagesmith and start typing into a new untitled document, you’re typing into a copy of the file named “New Document” that Pagesmith found in your Document Styles folder.
We think this is a much better way of doing things than saving templates in a special file format. You might be accustomed to creating a document template as a .dot file, for example. In Pagesmith, any Pagesmith document can be used as a template (we prefer the term Document Style); there’s no special template file format. All you do is save the Document Style in your Document Styles folder.
To create a Document Style: