Where does Pages 5 store templates

For those that want a simple, one-click access to their Pages v5.2.2 templates:

• right-click on /Users/your-login/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages

  Show Package Contents

• Click on the following folders
  • Data
  • Library
  • Application Support
• Drag and drop the User Templates folder to the Favorites section of your left Finder sidebar.
  • Do not drag/drop into an existing folder
  • Use the blue guide bar to place before or after a Favorites entry (e.g. your home directory)
  • When done, you will have a User Templates folder as a Favorites location
• When you want to see your templates, just click on this Favorites entry in the left Finder panel

It is always a good idea to keep a folder (e.g. _myTemplates) in your Documents folder. You save your original template contents in this location, before you save it as a template. When you want to change the template, you edit and save this original document again. Then, you remove the prior template from the My Templates folder via Pages v5.2.2, and then Save this current template as its former name again. Do not attempt to directly edit your templates in the new sidebar folder!

Thank you. I was looking in the old places and feeling stupid.

You can get there directly with Menu> Go to Folder (Cmd-Shift G)

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Application Support/User Templates/

Wow. This is a horrible design. Just trying to salvage my templates from my old laptop has lost me hours – thanks for documenting this. No wonder Microsoft is winning the office software wars. And I have to say, the latest version (the subscription version) of Office, running in Parallels, is pretty darned nice. Makes a joke of Pages and Numbers.

Now templates are buried inside a bundle so you have to control-click, "Show Contents" then search for the User Templates folder.

Why?

Everything that you can do with those templates (new, rename, delete, edit) can be done from within the Pages v5 application. Since sub-folders organization, and placing templates in other non-Pages folders is not supported, there is no reason to make the Pages v5 templates folder easy to reach.

If you need to move all your templates from a previous Mac Book laptop HDD since the MB won't start this is no help. I need to retrieve my templates and add them to my new MB off the old HDD. It should not be this difficult.