Templates opening at 'word processing' format instead of 'page layout'

I have many templates created before upgrading to iwork-8. When I use them in the latest version they automatically open as a 'word processing' format. But I need them to be in page layout format. Any suggestions?

Not,
Before Pages 3, there was no page layout template -- there was only word processing. So Pages open up any document (prior to Pages 3) as a word processing doc. You can't change it. You can only copy the material to a new template.
But I have to ask -- what do you want to do that can't get done in a word processing doc?
-Dennis

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