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Update template
Update pages
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Update Pages

If you updated a template but didn't update the pages that are based on the template, you can always go back and update the pages later.

Exercise: Update all of the pages based on a template

  1. open the template file classTemplate and make a change to it
  2. click File --> Save and when the dialog box asks "You have changed a template. Do you want to update all documents in your local site that use this template?", select No.
  3. click File --> Close to close the template
  4. open the file Research.html that you created in Exercise 5.
  5. choose Modify --> Templates --> Update Pages
  6. in the Update Pages dialog box, select Files That Use... in the Look in window and then select the name of the template that you want to update from
  7. click Start

To update a single page based on a template:

Replace step 5 with:
Modify --> Templates --> Update Current Page

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