Trouble customizing documents in Pages-Please help!!

How can I create custom page sizes in pages? I can create a new blank document but that seems to be the only page customization I can do.
What I want is to create a 10x8 pg (vertically) and have 3 columns (like seen in the brochure templates).
I see all these cool layouts in the templates but unable to recreate them.
Also, where can I learn how to use pages properly? The video tutorials are extremely basic and the help files are an extremely slow and frustrating way to learn.
Please let me know thanks.
Dorian

Dorian,
Let's start with your question about setting a 10x8" page: you do that in Pages by clicking on File > Page Setup. In the Paper Size menu, select Manage Custom Sizes, then set your paper size in the blank fields.
Regarding columns: Columns can be set in a number of ways -- one of which is by using the Columns icon on the contextual menu or the columns setting in the inspector. Another way is by inserting a table. But the brochure templates I looked at seem to be using text boxes and photos to give the documents the look and feel of columns. You can actually put text in a text box, select the box, then go to the inspector and change the text to two columns, which was done in one of the templates I looked at.
Do you need any more info?
-Dennis

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