Creating Templates and Template Documents

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In ChemDraw Pro you can create new templates and add them to existing Template documents or create new Template documents.

To create a new Template document:

• On the File menu, point to Open Special, and then choose New Templates.

A new and untitled Template window appears. The Template window is similar to a document window. The Template window is divided into two halves by a moveable, horizontal line:

• Template panel-Top half of the window consists of individual panes where newly created templates appear.
• Drawing area-Bottom half of the window where you can draw new templates.

The templates you define are not limited to atoms and bonds. Templates can contain any ChemDraw objects such as captions, boxes, arcs, orbitals, arrows, reaction mechanism symbols, and curves. The ChemDraw objects in Template documents can be colored. However, the colors do not appear in the Templates tool palette. You can paste pictures from other applications into a Template pane. Pasted objects are scaled to the current Template document settings. For more information, see "Autoscaling".