creation of medical templates

Pages doesn't have this feature. There is an autofill preference but it is limited.
You really need a third party app like Textpander. This is a great little app that you can copy and paste text into and assign a shortcut. The text will paste into any text document including e-mail and non-cocoa apps like Appleworks.

The only disadvantage I have seen to Textpander is its sluggishness. It is very slow to open for the first time after a restart and there is quite a delay when creating abbreviations. Once you have data in there, however, response is immediate. Type the abbreviation in your text app and the template is quickly pasted in.

Kurt

Textpander is very useful for automatically inserting often used text. It can insert formatted text with pictures as well.

For a layout type insertion you should use Pages templates. You can have multiple Pages docs open and copy and paste between the two. You can also save a page you have created as a Page thumbnail, to be inserted wherever the cursor is. To do this create your page with a section mark at either end. Then from the format menu/advanced select 'Capture Page'. Now the page can be insert whenever you wish.

Unfortunately a page created in this manner is document specific. It will not appear in other templates. someone pointed out to me early that page thumbnails can be copy and pasted between documents.

• Open two docs.

• Make sure in the view menu 'Show Page thumbnails' is selected.

•Click on a Page thumbnail in one doc and press command + C.

•Go to the second doc and click on the page where you wish the new page to follow.

•Press command + v

Kurt

someone

Oh, that was me ; )

-GCL

It was indeed! This is a cool feature I did not know until you pointed it out.

Kurt