Adobe 38040334 - Dreamweaver CS3 User Manual page 417

• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh), then select Templates > Open Attached Template.
Modify the contents of the template.
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To modify the template's page properties, select Modify > Page Properties. (Documents based on a template inherit
the template's page properties.)
4 Save the template. Dreamweaver prompts you to update pages based on the template.
Click Update to update all documents based on the modified template; click Don't Update if you don't want to
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update documents based on the modified template.
Dreamweaver displays a log indicating the files that were updated.
Rename a template
In the Assets panel (Window > Assets), select the Templates category on the left side of the panel
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2 Click the name of the template to select it.
Click the name again so that the text is selectable, then enter a new name.
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This method of renaming works in the same way as renaming a file in Windows Explorer (Windows) or the Finder
(Macintosh). As with Windows Explorer and the Finder, be sure to pause briefly between clicks. Do not double-click
the name, because that opens the template for editing.
Click in another area of the Asset panel, or press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh) for the change to take
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effect.
An alert asks if you want to update documents that are based on this template.
5 To update all documents in the site that are based on this template, click Update. Click Don't Update if you do not
want to update any document based on this template.
See also
"Creating a Dreamweaver template" on page 395
"Applying or removing a template from an existing document" on page 413
Change a template description
The template description appears in the New Document dialog box when you're creating a page from an existing
template. You normally set the description the first time you save a page as a template, but you can always change the
description later.
Select Modify > Templates > Description.
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2 In the Template Description dialog box, edit the description and click OK.
See also
"Creating a Dreamweaver template" on page 395
Manually update documents based on templates
When you make a change to a template, Dreamweaver prompts you to update the documents based on the template,
but you can manually update the current document or the entire site if necessary. Manually updating template-based
documents is the same as reapplying the template.
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