Using Templates in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms

Using a pre-designed template in any of the four Google products are an underutilized feature.  For teachers and students, it provides a great starting point rather than having to start from scratch.  This can be extremely helpful for those that have a writer or designer block.  Get the shell of the project started and just focus on content.  For years, the template gallery was old, clunky and hard to find.  No wonder it was never used....nobody even knew it existed.  But since the update that was pushed out on September 2015, there really wasn't much of a push to explore the gallery or submit your own templates to the gallery.  This would be a great feature for school districts to use if they wanted consistency and uniformity among professional documents.  You can access the template gallery two ways.  In Drive, click on New --> choose your product (templates are available for docs, sheets, slides and forms) and click on the arrow to the right.  You will get a menu that says Blank document or  From a template (see image below).  Secondly, you can go the the homepage for any of the Google tools.

• Documents - https://docs.google.com/document
• Slides - https://docs.google.com/presentation
• Sheets - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets
• Forms - https://docs.google.com/forms

I hope you found this post helpful and you find a template that helps to save you some design time in the future.  If you have any comments or questions, leave them in the comments section below.