Adding pages to custom templates

Hi I'm returning to the Mac after many years away and I'm hoping someone can help me. I designed a recipe template in Pages with text boxes formatted the way I want. But I can't seem to add pages to the template or document that keep that specific format of 4 text boxes with certain attributes - nothing fancy. How do you add a page that keeps the same setup of text boxes as the first page? Thanks for any help you can give.

I just happen to stumble across this question trying to get a question answered myself. I am not sure what formatting is getting changed when you attempt to add a new page or how you are adding a new page. So I will make the following assumptions. Please let me know how far off I am.
When you are adding a new page I assume that you are using [Menu] Insert -> Page Break.
When you say the formatting changes you mean that the Text Boxes move to locations that you do not want.
If this is the case then you will want to select the text box and then look into the inspector [Menu] View->Show Inspector. Go to the Wrap Inspector (3rd tab from the left) and ensure the "Floating (doesn't move with text)" is selected. This should let you place the text boxes anywhere and the text will just "deal with it". This also means the text boxes don't care where page breaks are either.
Another way of placing text in columns or in an arranged order is to use a Table. You can remove the headers and show or hide boundary lines. I often use table to layout my text and then remove the borders. This looks great when you need to write out terms and their definitions.
Hope this helps.

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