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Back in December I blogged about the new Template Gallery in Google Docs, Sheets & Slides .  (By the way, it also works with Google Forms now!) You may be in an organization that moderates the templates submitted to the gallery - this can be especially helpful in a larger organization where it would get overwhelming quickly if everyone tried to add personal templates (what I consider templates that only the creator would use, not everyone in the organization or even departments within the organization). If this is the case, when you submit a template you will get the following message: This will trigger an email to your Google administrators that have access to applications.  Once they approve or deny your request, you will get one of the following emails as confirmation:  For a decline:  For an approved request: If the request was approved, then the template will be available to everyone in your organization going forward.  If you are an ...

Finally!  We have access to the new template gallery in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. From any Google account you are able to access it - but it may not be as intuitive to get to as the "old" template gallery was.  You need to go to the landing page for that TYPE of document, which I find many people still don't know about.  So, go to: docs.google.com for your Documents sheets.google.com for your Sheets slides.google.com for your Slides forms.google.com for your Forms The first time you go to these, you will get a message about the Template Gallery: After that, you will both see a top bar with existing templates AND a link in the upper right that says Template Gallery. Now if you belong to a Google Apps for Education organization, and templates are enabled, you have a couple additional options not available with a general Google account. 1. You will have a choice of General templates or your organization's templates 2. You will also see a choi...