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    • Google Drive Templates

    Owned by Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)
    May 14, 2024
    2 min read

    Using templates from RIT’s template library

    1. Right click on a blank area in the folder you want to use

    2. Hover over the arrow next to “Google Slides” or “Google Sheets”

    3. Click “From a template”, then find your template and click on it

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    Steps to use a template

    Adding templates to RIT’s template library

    1. Copy the template file to your own rit.edu Google Drive (Shared Drives don’t allow viewers to download, so the template system can’t work with files in shared drives)

    2. Click on the file and open the Info panel

     

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    Open info sidebar

    1. Click “Manage Access” in the pop-up pane

    1. Make sure RIT has access, then click Settings

    1. Make sure viewers can download

    1. Follow the previous seciton’s instructions to open the template library

    2. Click “Submit a template”

    1. Configure template settings - No copy (matches the name you gave), categorized

      1. “No copy” means your changes to it will get matched to Drive, which is convenient

     

    Now everyone can use the previous section’s instrucitons to easily make Google documents from a template

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