Creating an InDesign document from a PDF template

I am creating an InDesign doc from a PDF template. How exactly do I go about getting the pdf template into InDesign? I don't know if I chose
the correct option, but I created my doc in InDesign and then placed the pdf template into the doc? Is this correct? If not, any advice would be very helpful!
Thanks.

Actually, I'm not quite sure, from your description, what you're trying to do. If someone gave me an English PDF and told me to recreate it it into an InDesign document, I'd start by doing exactly what you did - I'd place it in InDesign. So, now the PDF is in InDesign, as an image that you can't edit. This is really helpful if you have to recreate a PDF perfectly in InDesign - you can know exactly where everything is, and place each new bit exactly where it is in the PDF.
If someone is expecting you to add stuff to that PDF template, you can place it on top of the PDF in InDesign.
If someone is expecting you to manipulate, change, revise, or otherwise actually touch the objects in the PDF template, they don't know what they're doing - PDF is a storage format, and it's not really easy (or even reliably possible) to edit things in PDFs.
Does that make any sense? Please ask some more questions if this isn't clear.

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