Word Templates & Collaboration: forms and review

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I'm learning "Word Templates & Collaboration: forms and review" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Templates: build once, reuse forever".

What the lesson teaches:
- A normal Word document is a .docx file. A Word template is a .dotx file. A template that contains macros is a .dotm file.
- Save as a template (Windows): File > Save As, choose a place (for example This PC), type a name, and in Save as type choose Word Template. Choose Word Macro-Enabled Template only if the file has macros. Select Save.
- Save as a template (Mac): File > Save as Template, type a name, and next to File Format choose Microsoft Word template (.dotx).
- Where it goes: on Windows, Office saves templates in the Custom Office Templates folder in Documents by default.
- Start a new document from it: Windows: File > New > Personal (some versions say Custom), then pick your template. Mac: File > New from Template.
- Change the template itself: Windows: File > Open, browse to the Custom Office Templates folder, open the template, make changes, save and close.
- Good uses: letters, reports, meeting minutes, lab reports, invoices, forms, anything you make again and again.

The exercise I'm working on:
Turn one document you make often (a lab report, a letter, a weekly plan) into a template and create two new documents from it.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Templates: build once, reuse forever" from the course "Word Templates & Collaboration: forms and review".

Here's what the lesson says:
Before this course: Word for Long Documents (course 13.1.2). A template is like a cookie cutter. You make the shape once, and every cookie comes out the same. When you open a template, Word gives you a fresh copy, so the cutter itself never gets messy.

The activity:
Turn one document you make often (a lab report, a letter, a weekly plan) into a template and create two new documents from it.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.