Here are a few practical scenarios where Power BI templates can prove highly useful:

1. Uniform Design and Appearance: Within an organization, if you aim to standardize the appearance of all Power BI reports, creating a base template can be invaluable. By sharing this template across the organization, each report developer can use it as a starting point, ensuring a consistent and branded look for all reports.
2. Time-Saving Default Templates: If you find yourself consistently performing certain operations on all your Power BI reports, creating a default template can save you considerable time.
   • Can include elements such as branded logos, banners
   • Power BI Desktop settings (like disabling auto-detect of new relationships), preferred or customized themes (including colors and fonts)
   • A calendar table (commonly required in Power BI reports), and
   • Customized Visuals panes (removing unused visuals and importing frequently used ones). You can use this template as a foundation whenever you create a new Power BI report.
3. Leveraging Expert Work: Power BI developers often create and share reports for common scenarios. If you come across reports that suit your needs, you can download and modify them to fit your specific requirements. 
4. Sharing Report Structure (No Data): You can share a report template without any actual data when you’ve created a detailed report for one office, and other departments or locations need similar reports. This allows them to use your template, connect it to their data sources, and create their own reports quickly, as long as the data structure remains the same. This method promotes efficient collaboration while preserving data security and integrity.