Recommendation: Don't use Finder tags on Pages templates, regardless of where they are saved. It is an over complication.
Ordinarily, one saves any new template into the Pages Template Chooser where it would be added to the My Templates category. There would be no opportunity to tag it there, though in futility, you could do so before the Save as Template menu operation. However, documents created from this tagged template in the My Templates collection would not be created with that tag on them. I tested that.
Alternatively, in Pages v15.1.1, when I save a blank (tagged) template to the Desktop, three things are noted:
- The document icon has a color centered image of the Pages v15.1.1. application icon — entirely different from other saved ordinary Pages documents. It stands out like a sore thumb…
- The template document icon has TEMPLATE stamped on it.
- The Finder tag is displayed.
Therefore, placing any Finder tag on the template document is visually redundant and I consider it unnecessary owing to the default template icon visuals.
When I use this Pages template document that is on my Desktop and attempt to make a new Pages document from it in my Documents folder, no Finder tag appears on the new document. Doing so in the same filesystem location of the template creates a new Pages document with that same tag on it.
When I remove that Finder tag from the template document and then repeat the preceding paragraph, no Finder tag appears on the newly created Pages document, regardless of its location.
Tested: Pages v15.1.1, macOS Tahoe 26.3
