Basically, what is a template.....a set of object frames

placed in a way that suits most of the requirements of day

to day office work.

To create a template, u can either develop a variation from

the existing templates of the Crystal reports Suite or open

a saved report, , in the new report u r creating, click on

the template expert and choose template from existing file.

the template, that is the object frames and not the data

will be copied to the new report u r developing.

even , now u have the liberty to make changes, and save

them for future use as template!

So u can literally create as many differnt types of

templates as u like through all the templates already

available or the reports u created from teh scratch.