Is there a better way to edit and create a Page Size list for InDeisgn CC 2014?

I have about 65 iMac machines I'm responsible for at a publishing company. The users need a specific custom Page Size list to display when setting up a new document. It's a very long list of sizes for various products. The only way I know how to edit this size list is to open the .xml file in Dreamweaver and edit the code. I would like to know if there is a better way to do this for InDesign CC 2014. At the moment I have to take this one file and install individually on all users accounts on all 65 machines. Here is the path of the file I edit by hand: Mac HD/Users/(User Account)/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 10.0/en_US/Pages Sizes/New Page Sizes.xml

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