First, imagine you are building a house. You would not just start constructing walls and putting on a roof without a blueprint, would you? Similarly, in the world of technical documentation, you would not just start writing content without a clear plan for how it should look and feel. That is where Document! X template come in.

Think of a template as a pre-designed blueprint for your technical documentation. It is noting but a set of instructions that tells the software how to format and style your content, ensuring a consistent and professional look across your entire project.

Let me tell you the advantages that the template offers you first:

• Consistency: Templates ensure that all your documentation follows the same style guidelines, giving your project a polished and professional appearance.
• Efficiency: Templates save you time and effort by automating many of the formatting and styling tasks, allowing you to focus on the content itself.
• Reusability: Templates can be reused across multiple projects, eliminating the need to recreate the same formatting rules each time.

Now, what is cool about the Document! X template is that it brings together two different templates to create the final result:

• Topics Template: This topics template is the in charge of the overall appearance and style of your topics. It sets the tone for how your content will look and feel.
• Browser Help Navigation Template: This template is all about managing what's on the left-hand navigation section. It takes care of how the layout and content are organized for easy browsing.

In the upcoming tutorial section, you will learn how to create a new template, edit template properties and widgets, and edit customstyle CSS.

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