An existing document that you use as a starting point for a new document; it opens a copy of itself, unnamed, and then you use the structure and possibly some content, such as headings as the starting point for a new document.
Templates are multi-designed documents for desktop publishing. These templates can be used to generate business cards, brochures, greeting cards, and other desktop documents.
There are several types of templates, that include mixing and matching components and provides a wizard to select objects from the list that gathers a list and provide a final result.