Mixed Page Layout and Word Processing Modes

Hi Everyone, I find myself increasingly using Pages 09 in word processing mode then creating a new document in Page layout mode to create a front cover for that document.
Is it possible to combine the two modes and therefore having only one file to deal with.
Thanks in advance

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
There is no background in Page Layout mode, just stacked objects, repeated over and over to make the document grow fat beyond belief.
Wrong! The picture which is stored in the captured page is not repeated over and over in the document.
It is stored only once exactly as a background image.
In *Page layout mode* facing pages is broken, all that switches from left to right is the footer and header.
Perfectly normal behavior.
It's the same in Word processing format.
The setting of margins for facing pages apply to three items:
main text layer
header
footer
It doesn't apply to floating items.
In Layout document there is no main text layer so the margins apply logically only to header and feater.
So the truth is that nothing is broken.
It just don't behave the way you wrongly assumed.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 26 juin 2009 12:37:56)

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the thing is i thought that after using a page layout you could just go with word processing easily... well no, you can't, but i'm sure i'm missing something...
For exemple i really like the catalogue brochure and it would be perfect for me to start a project... but after a few pages, i can just add blank pages and if i want to type text, i have to add text boxes... i don't want that, I want word processing... and another thing in this brochure i can't add table of content because it is not by default in the template...
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Open a Page Layout document
run this script:
--{code}
set p2t to (path to temporary items from user domain) as text
set path_2_doc to p2t & (do shell script "date +_%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.doc")
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end tell
--{code}
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 20 juin 2011 18:03:28
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