"templates" "cloning" "renaming...

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Linda in NH wrote:
Jewelcraft wrote:
Squirrel wrote:
Is there a way to propogate updates to a template page? For example, I have a site with roughly 45 pages to it, but all have a common header and footer. I know would like to change an item in the header. Is there a way to make a change in the main template and updates all the rest?

If you make the changes on the first page and select all the elements in one go by holding down the shift key you can then paste onto each page in turn.

Might be wise to do save as and rename the website first so you do all the changes in a clone of the website so you can go back to original at a later date if you want to



Interesting idea. Hadn't thought of that but I like it. Thanks for posting it before I ended up going through changing things one by one. Though I suppose in the new version that would be subject to the dreaded 10x10 shift. Wonder if shifting the primary page elements 10x10 the OPPOSITE way the shift occurs would put all the 'pastes' in the right place?

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That 10 x 10 shift is a problem in V7, CC are looking at our suggestions

But i got round it by making a new 1st page (cloned) shifted everything 10 x 10 up and left, called it template 1

Now i copy all the elements from that page into all the other pages, it works perfectly

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Unfortunately, I still have to do that on all forty pages. It's not quit as simple as just "pasting them on the new pages" because you first need to delete the previously existing one which is very time consuming. You can just click and drag over the items ot select them, delete them, and paste the new items because the clisk and drag also capture the backgrounds and anything else in between the menu items. Even if this didn't happen, it would still be very time consuming to do this on over 50 pages...

I think this "Master Template" idea could work similar to PowerPoint's. I think it's really needed based on how many sites run common looking pages with master templates.
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