Changes in edited & saved template do not show up in page 2 or 3 of letter.

Question

I am new to Pages '09. I chose a template for a "Traditional Letter". It immediately picked up my name (from the computer registration, I think), as the header read "Geraldine's Laptop Dwyer". I edited that to read, "Geraldine Dwyer", added my phone & fax numbers and my address at the bottom. Then I saved it to "My templates".
Next time I opened this template - those changes were saved and showed up, but when I wrote a letter and it spilled onto the second page - the original header created by the app. - "Geraldine Laptop Dwyer"is on the top of the second page (& 3rd and 4th pages too). How can I have "my" information on all the pages that I edit from an Apple template, or maybe I cannot?
Geraldine Dwyer

Answer 1

Geraldine,
There are some oddities in Pages' methods.
What you did was save the changed template which had been altered on the page but you also needed to "capture" and save the Layout or Section over the existing one in the document using the same name to replace it.
I will walk you through making your own version of a template.
1 Open a new document using the template you wish to customise.
2 Don't change anything yet, but open every section from the Sections pull down menu so you have a sequence of pages each with a page of a different section design.
3 Make Master Objects selectable if they are not. 
Change each Section to your liking.
4 +Menu > View > Page Thumbnails+
5 Select first Thumbnail in sidebar 
+Menu > Format > Advanced > Capture Pages… > Name : Type exactly the same name as the section > It will ask you if you want to replace the existing section > Replace+
6 Repeat this for each section until you have replaced them all.
7 +Menu > File > Save as Template… > Save with a New Name+
8 +Menu > File > New from Templates > My Templates > Choose your New Name template+
You now have a document customised to your design.
Peter