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title: Project Templates
description: Create and manage templates for your projects
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# Project Templates
## Create and manage templates for your projects
A project template **organizes all the necessary project creation settings in one place**. With project templates, Matecat users can easily** apply the appropriate settings for different project types without having to adjust each one manually every time**. This ensures consistent and efficient project setups.
You can customize and save your preferences for all the available settings.
In order to use a template to create a project, you can select it directly from the “**Project template**” dropdown on the homepage or from the same dropdown inside the settings panel.
Initially, the only available template is the **Matecat original settings** one.
This configuration includes a series of predefined settings:
- **Translation Memory and Termbase**: the [public TM](https://guides.matecat.com/public-tm-and-translation-memory-key-tm-key?hsLang=en), MyMemory, is enabled in “lookup” and “update” mode
- **Machine Translation**: the MT engine is [ModernMT lite](https://guides.matecat.com/default-machine-translation-engine?hsLang=en)
- **Quality framework**: a standard [quality framework](https://guides.matecat.com/quality-framework?hsLang=en) is selected
- **File import**: default [extraction parameters and xliff import settings](https://guides.matecat.com/file-import?hsLang=en) are selected
- **Analysis**: a standard [billing model](https://guides.matecat.com/custom-billing-models?hsLang=en) is selected
- **Other**: the default additional settings are selected. The default team is Personal, the source language is English US, the target language is French FR, and the subject is General.
### **Creating a customized template**
You have the flexibility to **create custom templates** to suit your specific requirements by modifying the settings mentioned in the previous paragraph.
**Whenever a setting is changed** in the currently-selected template, **the template’s name turns blue**, an asterisk is added to the end of the name, and a blue dot appears to the right of the settings tab that has been edited.
**Any change made triggers the option to save the current settings** in a new template and, when an existing template is selected, to save the changes to a new version of the template.
If you decide to create a new template, you will be asked to name it.
Please note that if you **modify the settings** of a template and **do not save the changes**, the **current settings will still be applied to the project** you are creating.
In the **"Other"** tab, you can configure additional preferences for your project template. Here, you can designate the **team** that the project should be created in, configure the **source** and **target languages**, and select a specific **subject** from the available list.
**Choosing a template as your default**
You can **set any template as the default one** by pressing the “**Set as default**” button after selecting it.
The default template will be **automatically selected every time you open Matecat’s homepage**. Setting a template as the default can be useful for **skipping an additional step when most projects you create require the same settings**. This ensures efficiency in your workflow.
When the default template doesn't fit the needs of the specific project you are creating, you can select a different template or change its settings to fit your current project.
### **Managing templates**
You can **manage your templates** at any time by selecting one of them from the drop-down list. After selecting a template, you can **rename it, delete it or edit its settings**.
If you delete a template you’ve previously set as the default one, Matecat will restore the "Matecat original settings" template as the default option.
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