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"Snippets" on page486. Snippets help share content between contexts, or insert content
conditionally.
"Styling and formatting" on page488. Make your Designer templates look pretty and give them
the same look and feel with style sheets.
"Personalizing Content" on page522. Personalize your customer communications using
variable data.
"Writing your own scripts" on page552. Scripting can take personalization much further. Learn
how to script via this topic.
"Generating output" on page858. Learn the ins and outs of generating output from each of the
contexts.
Templates
The Designer is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) tool to create templates. This topic
gets you started. It explains how to create a template, what is found in a template file, and how
output can be generated.
Creating a template
In the Welcome screen that appears after startup, get off to a flying start choosing Browse
Template Wizards. Scroll down to see all the Template Wizards. After deciding which output
channel – print, email or web – will be prevalent in your template, select a template.
The Template Wizards can also be accessed from the menu: click File, click New, expand the
Template folder, and then expand one of the templates folders.
There are Wizards for the three types of output channels, or contexts as they are called in the
Designer: Print, Email and Web.
See:
l "Creating an Email template with a Wizard" on page335
l "Creating a Print template with a Wizard" on page300
l "Creating a Web template with a Wizard" on page352
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