Document Templates
New - this style & design guide for NRAO employees and external users (AUI, NSF, etc.) provides a detailed definition of the new NRAO brand, visually demonstrates its design elements, and defines their intended usage in a broad range of applications.
Three classes of standard NRAO document templates have been created in Microsoft Word to provide configuration management for the Observatory's more formal internal and external communications. In addition to unifying aspects of NRAO document design, these templates improve our ability to identify NRAO document authorship and provide mechanisms to track changes and versions, and document formal release approval and signatures, when required.
- Template files are available for formal internal and external memoranda originating from the sites listed below. A continuation page is provided in each template for memoranda that extend beyond a page.
- Charlottesville (Edgemont Road)
- Charlottesville (NTC)
- Socorro
- Green Bank
- Chile
- Long Baseline Observatory
- Green Bank Observatory
- Template files for documents that require author identification, and change and version tracking, but not formal approvals or signatures for release.
- Template files for documents that require formal approvals and release signatures, in addition to change and version tracking, and author identification. Examples of such documents include NRAO deliverables to the National Science Foundation, such as the annual Program Operating Plan, the annual update of the NRAO Long-Range Plan, and NRAO Quarterly Status Updates.
Downloading the NRAO document templates
If your browser adds an extension beyond the Word *.dotx file extension, delete anything after *.dotx to use the file as a template. Save this file to your Desktop, then, double-click on the desktop icon to open it. The file should open from within Word as "Document1". When you first save this file with a new document name, Word will convert it to the usual *.docx format, leaving the original *.dotx untouched and available for future use.
