Change a document so it contains the formats and settings you want. For example, you can place headers and footers, a Paragraph Catalog, and master page graphics in the template document.
Delete all text on the body pages.
Click in the empty text frame on page 1, and tag it with the paragraph style you want all text in the document to use. The default template uses the paragraph style “Body”.
Save the document, using the txttmplt file in the FrameMaker fminit folder.