Signatory DOTX Made Easy

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this is the second in a series of tutorials on how to use the word templates for theses and dissertations at the University of Houston Clear Lake as we look in this folder we see two word files in here something to point out is that these are not regular document files these are dot X files or Microsoft Word template files that's different from a Microsoft Word document which is a docx file to understand how the template files work it's important to point out that every Microsoft Word document is based on a template this is a normal document that you would open whenever you open Microsoft Word and you notice up here that there are a number of preset styles like normal which is Calibri font 11-point heading 1 heading 2 title the margins are set at 1 inch and so on so this is based on a template file that is exists on your computer that sends this information to Word document every time you open it up when we're working with the template files the same exact principle is in place except it's feeding information based on the UHCL format and Submission format guidelines for theses and dissertations to open these files you want to double click on it from within the Explorer window in Windows so you just double click on the file and notice when you do that that it opens up a document so it's not opening up I just double clicked on the text composer it's not opening up a dissertation text composer file it's opening up a Word document file do not click on file open to open up these files otherwise it's going to open as a word template file a dot X file and that's going to modify the underlying template you should only be working on word document or docx files so my suggestion to you is to create a new folder in your dissertation folder and say my dissertation and then when you open up this file and do a file save and you save it in half a separate folder now when we look here and that folder that we just created we can see that this is a doc X file and a Microsoft Word document file and when we open it up and look at it we can see that these styles are different from the normal template the margin is set to 1.25 inches the document text is Times New Roman 12-point font so here's where you want to draft your document and just leave these template files alone and let them sit here because every time you open up a document based on them they'll they'll feed that that information to that document