While designing your layout, add empty frames as place holders for maps and data tables. Once you are ready to publish your map, populate the frames. You can design templates in this way using empty frames and text boxes. Save your template to a workspace (.wor file) to populate later or to reuse for a map series.
To add an empty frame to your layout:
If you want to cancel the command after clicking New Frame, press Esc.
To add content to your empty frame, select it and then click the New Map or New Browser commands located on the LAYOUT tab, in the Edit group.