Hi vijay

I've had a quick look at this template. It's designed to be used with some
of the current content and especially the section formats left in place - in
particular, it contains an index arranged in columns as the last section of
the document, and when you deleted all the content it was that page layout
that you were left with - hence the title not fitting correctly in the
narrow column.

On the first page of the template, the 'Type thesis title here' and other
items in brackets are intended to be 'click here' placeholders - you should
just click in the field and type over those. The date is a CREATEDATE field,
so that should update automatically (change the 'picture' in the field code
for  a different format).

Most of the rest of the content is sample text that you can replace, though
it does include section breaks that you would probably want to keep (though
it hasn't given you any headers or footers, I see.) Bizarrely, the Tables of
Contents and Figures, and the Index, have been inserted as text instead of
using the automatic facilities - you'll want to replace these with proper
tables and indexes (Insert > Reference menu).

The bibliography has been set up as just a lot of 'click here' fields - I
don't think this is the neatest way of doing this, especially if you want to
cite from within the text.

All in all, this is not a very nice template and you might want to look at

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm.

(Note that this template isn't a download from the MVP site but the
Microsoft one - I think we ought to be embarrassed 'our' link got you there
<g>).