# Using templates Start a Power Automate flow from a ready-made PDF Blocks template instead of building it from scratch. Templates are ready-made Power Automate flows you can adopt in a few clicks. PDF Blocks publishes templates for common document jobs — converting Office files to PDF and watermarking them, protecting a PDF with a password, emailing a stamped document, and more — so you can start from a working flow instead of wiring one from scratch. <Frame caption="Searching Templates for PDF Blocks shows the ready-made flows."> <img src="/images/power-automate/using-templates/pdf-blocks-templates.png" alt="The Power Automate Templates gallery showing templates published by PDF Blocks" /> </Frame> ## Start from a template <Steps> <Step title="Open Templates"> In [Power Automate](https://make.powerautomate.com), select **Templates** in the left menu. </Step> <Step title="Search for PDF Blocks"> Search for **PDF Blocks** to list every template published by PDF Blocks — for example *Convert a Word document in SharePoint to PDF and add a text watermark* or *Convert an Excel file in SharePoint to PDF and protect with a password*. </Step> <Step title="Pick a template"> Select a template to review the flow it creates and the connectors it uses, then choose **Continue** to open it in the flow designer. </Step> <Step title="Connect PDF Blocks"> If this is your first PDF Blocks flow, Power Automate asks you to create a connection with your API key. See [Getting started](/docs/power-automate/getting-started#step-2-create-a-connection) for the connection parameters. </Step> <Step title="Customize and save"> Adjust the trigger, action parameters, and outputs to fit your process, then save the flow. Each field maps to the same parameters documented on the action pages. </Step> </Steps> ## Browse PDF Blocks templates <Card title="PDF Blocks templates in Power Automate" href="https://make.powerautomate.com/templates/" > Open the Templates gallery and search for PDF Blocks to start from a ready-made flow. </Card> <Note> Templates use the published PDF Blocks connector. To use actions or parameters that aren't in the published connector yet, see [Use a custom connector](/docs/power-automate/use-a-custom-connector). </Note>