# Templates in Documents and Whiteboards?

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/templates-in-documents-and-whiteboards/5810>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [February 6, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/templates-in-documents-and-whiteboards/5810 "2024-02-06T15:36:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![ccollins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ccollins](https://community.fibery.io/u/ccollins)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/templates-in-documents-and-whiteboards/5810/7 "2024-07-02T19:18:03Z")

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I would love a dedicated templates feature in Fibery for documents and whiteboards. If I had a vote, I would give it to you!

> [@Karlitooo](#):
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> At the risk of seeming (unintentionally) flippant, isn’t that what the duplicate doc/whiteboard feature provides?

Duplicating works fine for your own personal templates, but doesn’t work very well for company templates. In order to be able to duplicate, you have to have editing rights to that whiteboard (through space permissions). In a larger company that is trying to standardize more of their outputs, templates aren’t really templates if anyone can modify the master copy whenever they want. Additionally, duplicating puts the new whiteboard in the same location as the original. If I have a templates folder in the left sidebar, I have to trust that everyone will remember to drag their duplicated whiteboards to their destinations or else the templates folder is now cluttered with non-templates.

> [@What are good ways to create a slides presentation in Fibery to share with stakeholders?](https://community.fibery.io/t/what-are-good-ways-to-create-a-slides-presentation-in-fibery-to-share-with-stakeholders/5884/6):
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> We recently introduced Presentation Mode in Whiteboard. Currently, it hides the edit menu and switches the whiteboard to view mode. **Our next step is to redesign the sections** , allowing them to be linked together as slides.

This is great news about linking sections together to make slides! That is a very cool idea. I think this thread’s templating idea could also be great in a future sections\_2.0 feature. Some ideas:

- When inserting a new section into your whiteboard, it could prompt you if you want a blank section, a personal template, or a space template
- Where creating a template could be triggered from the section’s context menu. Personal if you create it yourself versus a space template if created by a creator/admin.
- The benefit of templates being built inside of the sections feature is that you could easily mix and match multiple templates on one whiteboard.

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