Pages Template issues on my Macbook

Easy answer:

It will only load up the first page typically. But the other pages are there. Each page is its own section. Just to to: Insert>Sections>...

There, you can select which type of page you want to insert. For example, on a book template, you might select "Table of Contents" and insert that after the first page. Then, you might want to insert a "Text Page", etc.

Note that you can enter onto a new page from one of the unique pages in the template. For example, with a book template, you can insert a text page, and then just start writing. It will enter onto a new page when you run out of space on the first text page. And each of those new pages will be formatted exactly like the original text page you inserted.

Chances are you did something different. From what I recall, my templates load up only the first page. That's how they were designed and saved. I just now tried some of Pages' built-in report templates. Only the first page is included in the document. I have to insert as per above for other pages.

I also noticed you can click the "Sections" icon in the toolbar: that will pop up a list of all templated sections as well, that you can select and insert into the document.

So with these templates, Apple's own, and even a set of third party ones I have, only the first page is displayed in the document on all of the ones I have used and tested. I checked the preferences but I don't see anything there for template settings that would help here.

Therefore, I think you have done something different, like maybe opened up different templates? Remember, you can create your own templates: just save the document as a template. For example, open up a template for a book, then insert all the sections, then save it as a template. When you open that template, all those pages will show up in the document without you having to insert them manually.

However, I like the fact that only one page is inserted when I first open a template, because I often don't use all of the templated pages in a report or book template, for instance. And I certainly don't use them in the order in which they are listed...