How to use Dropbox Paper templates
Updated Jan 24, 2025
The information in this article applies to all Dropbox users.
You can use pre-designed Paper templates from Dropbox or create your own.
New to Dropbox? See Dropbox Paper's project planning template.
Note: This article is for Dropbox users on the old release of Dropbox Paper instead of the new 2020 release of Dropbox Paper.
To find out which release you’re using:
- Log in to dropbox.com.
- Click Create.
- Hover over Document.
- If you see Dropbox Paper in the list of document types, then you’re using the new 2020 release of Dropbox Paper.
- If you don’t see Dropbox Paper in the list of document types, then you’re using the old release of Paper.
If you're on the 2020 release of Dropbox Paper, visit www.dropbox.com/paper/templates to find and use Paper templates pre-designed by Dropbox, and save them to your account on dropbox.com with the file type .papert.
- To edit a template, find it in your account on dropbox.com, open it, and start editing.
- To share a template, share it like you would a regular Dropbox file.
- To delete a template, delete it like you would a regular Dropbox file.
Create a template
- Open the Paper doc that you’d like to turn into a template.
- Click the icon.
- Click Templatize.
Use a template to create a doc
- Log in to dropbox.com.
- Click the grid icon in the top-left corner.
- Click Paper from the menu that appears.
- Click Create with templates.
- Hover over the template you’d like to use, and click Create doc.
Edit a template
Note: You can only edit templates owned by you. To edit a pre-designed Dropbox template, create a doc from it and templatize it to have the option to edit it.
- Log in to dropbox.com.
- Click the grid icon in the top-left corner.
- Click Paper from the menu that appears.
- Click Create with templates.
- Hover over the template you’d like to use, and click the icon.
Share a template
- Log in to dropbox.com.
- Click the grid icon in the top-left corner.
- Click Paper from the menu that appears.
- Click Create with templates.
- Hover over the template you’d like to use and click the icon.
- Click Share.
Delete a template
- Log in to dropbox.com.
- Click the grid icon in the top-left corner.
- Click Paper from the menu that appears.
- Click Create with templates.
- Hover over the template you’d like to use and click the icon.
- Click the icon.
- Click Delete.
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