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# [Workspace] Reduce Workload by Using Templates!
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-118/
- Published: 2023-09-12T13:00:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T13:03:19.000Z
- Description: #118
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Enterprise

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## Making Copies vs. Templates

If you’ve watched my [Top Productivity Tips at Work videos](https://youtu.be/1LOlJay5Sbw?ref=jeffsu.org), you know I’m a huge fan of making copies of colleagues’ documents and using them in my own work (after giving credit of course 😉).

But for instances where I want to stay 100% on brand (e.g. for external presentations), I usually pick an “official” template in Google Slides and Google Forms:

### Google Slides

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/09/Pasted-Graphic.png)

### Google Forms

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/09/Pasted-Graphic-1.png)

## Submit your own Templates

A great way to ~~suck up~~, sorry I mean **stand out**, at work is to add value, and what better way to submit your own designs as templates?

### Google Slides

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/09/CleanShot-2023-09-12-at-11.27.01@2x.png)

### Google Forms

First, go to the [Google Forms Template Gallery](https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/?tgif=d&ftv=1&ref=jeffsu.org), then click “Submit template”

For example, this is a form I created for internal workshops, and have since submitted into the template gallery:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/09/CleanShot-2023-09-12-at-11.28.53@2x.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/09/CleanShot-2023-09-12-at-11.32.00@2x.png)

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