sharing multiple templates in pages

When you use the File menu : Save as Template..., one's eyes always train over to the blue highlighted, Add to Template Chooser button, and skip right over that other Save... button that allows you to put your templates elsewhere (e.g. iCloud Drive).

What I would do is make a new folder in the iCloud Drive : Pages folder by the name of User Templates. That is where you would use the Save... button from above to write new templates. There is no override to Pages coding that would tell it to use this new template location instead of its default that a New Document request would use.

The first time that you launch Pages after saving to the iCloud Drive : Pages : User Templates folder, it would open in that location, so you will have to be careful that your future default creation, and saves of documents don't get written into your iCloud Drive template folder by accident.

As for existing custom Pages v6.0.5 templates, they are located in your home Library folder. If you do not see that Library folder, then open a Finder window, click into your home directory, and press command+J to see its view options. You want to check Show Library Folder.

The entire path is the following, of which you can double-click through everything except the com.apple.iWork.Pages package folder. There you will have to right-click to Show Package Contents.

/Users/yourlogin/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Applicati on Support/User Templates

I would select all of the User Templates, right-click on them, and choose Copy nn Items from the Finder contextual menu. Then hop out to iCloud Drive : Pages : User Templates, and with a right-click inside that folder, paste the templates into it. Do not move the originals.

Anyone that has used Pages v5.0 thru v6.0.5 just once — have that path on their local Mac filesystem. It is on every one of my Macs.

Click on your Desktop to make Finder current. Press shift+command+G to bring up the Finder's Go to Folder dialog. Copy and paste the following into that dialog, and then press the Go button. This will drop you into the User Templates folder:

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

It is possible to have multiple, different versions of Pages on macOS Sierra, with templates stored in different locations based on that version. The solution to your template problem requires knowing which specific version of Pages that you are referring too.

Pages menu : About Pages

Not all Pages templates are forward, or backward compatible with other versions of Pages, and placing them in a central (iCloud) repository must be managed with care. Any loss of Internet connectivity to those templates would stall productivity.

Did you not understand that path, and instructions from my previous post? Beware of that unintended gap in the word Application below.

The entire path is the following, of which you can double-click through everything except the com.apple.iWork.Pages package folder. There you will have to right-click to Show Package Contents.

/Users/yourlogin/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Applicati on Support/User Templates

Pages v6.0.5 uses the same User Templates folder location as did the original Pages v5.0 in Fall 2013. You have to run Pages v6.0.5 on that MacBook Pro, and create/save a new document to initially create these housekeeping locations in the above path.

Templates are just documents which come up as Untitled to force you to rename them..

Why not just open them and save them as documents in a folder and share those?

Peter

That would work too.

Same application. Same path.