# 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>