Page Layout document

I created a single page I want to use as a template ultimately. It is now a word processing document and I need it to be in a page layout document. How do I do that?

Hi William,
I think your only option is to Copy your content and Paste into Text Boxes in PL mode. You can't copy and paste Thumbnails between document types.
Jerry

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