USING DOWNLOADED TEMPLATES

This page provides you with information on how the templates are set up in terms of format and how they are intended to be used. Each template can and should be customised and adapted by you.

If you are looking for a template, you will find all our available templates here. Once you have purchased a template, you will find it under “Downloads” when you are logged in on medicaldevicehq.com.

How to use the templates

Each template includes information on what it is meant to be used for and how you can use it.

Instructions and explanations can be found in blue italic text and any other text that is not blue is example text that can and should be edited by you. Text that should definitely be replaced or updated can be identified by { and } characters.

Styles

The Word-files have been created using styles for formatting of headers and body text. You can read more about styles in this Microsoft help page.

The styles used are typically:

• Heading 1
• Heading 2
• Heading 3
• Body
• Normal

For new paragraphs, the body style will automatically add a half row of space, so that you don’t have to hit return twice to create the empty space between paragraphs. If you don’t want an extra space, use the normal style instead.

Table of contents

The table of contents (TOC) have been automatically created. It does not update itself completely automatically though. You can update it by right-clicking and selecting “update field” or just click the table and hit F9.

Remember that the TOC references the paragraphs using the different heading styles, so make a habit of always using the styles to indicate a heading.

Header

The header is a table with two rows. The lines have been removed between the two rows, so you don’t normally see them, but they are there. The reason why the second half of the top part of the first page of the document is not in the header is that it is best to let the header be updated automatically on all pages. Had the second part been included in the header, then the first page would have had to use a “different header on first page” setting, meaning that when you update the issue number you would have to remember updating it on the second page too (which at least I never remember).

To access the header (or footer) just double click the field in Word and you should be able to edit it.

Footer

A good way of revealing how for example the header table was created is to show hidden characters, using the button below. That way a lot more information on how the document is constructed will be visible to you.

Support

If you are struggling with the templates and this page is not answering your questions, you can contact us using the form below.