{"id":20199,"date":"2017-11-02T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=20199"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:14:44","slug":"t3-create-template-in-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20199","title":{"rendered":"T<sup>3<\/sup>: Create Template in Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Google Docs you can force others to make a copy of a document, essentially creating a template.<b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Go up to the address bar of a Google Doc and replace the <\/span>edit<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> portion of the URL with <\/span>copy.<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/ttt\/googledocsforcecopy.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of URL\" width=\"75%\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Copy the new URL with <\/span><b>copy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the end and share it in an e-mail or on a site. They\u2019ll now be forced to make their own copy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/ttt\/googledocscopy.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Google Prompt to Copy Document\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Wisconsin Instructional Technology Resource Center (WITRC) and Jon Spike for the tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Google Docs you can force others to make a copy of a document, essentially creating a template.\u00a0Go up to the address bar of a Google Doc and replace the edit portion of the URL with copy. Copy the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13959],"tags":[33780],"class_list":["post-20199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","tag-google-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions\/20206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}