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title: Re-using page templates
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

The previous tutorial page described how to create a new page with its own page-specific template. This type of page template is called an **ad-hoc page template**.

Now you will learn how to convert the ad-hoc template into a reusable page template, which can be used to create any number of pages with the same general layout, but different content.

1. Open the **Pages** application in **Edit** mode.
2. Select the **About Us** page in the content tree.
3. Switch to the **Properties -> Template** tab.

   ![Setting the Template properties of a page](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82tutorial/re-using-page-templates/Properties_Template.png "Setting the Template properties of a page")
4. Click **Save as new template** and enter the following values:

   - **Template display name**: Left image with text on the right
   - **Template category**: Templates with editable regions
   - **Template description**: Two columns with an image on the left and text on the right.
   - **Assign to the current page**: Yes (leave the box checked)
5. **Save & Close**.

## Result

If you try to add a new page now, the _Left image with text on the right_ page template is available among the offered options in the **Templates with editable regions** category. You can create another page with the same structure as the **About Us** page.

Because the **Assign to the current page** option was checked, the system also automatically assigns the template to the current page instead of the previous ad-hoc template.

> **Note:** **Important**: When you modify a re-usable page template, the changes affects all pages that use the template.

> **Warning:** When you delete a page which uses an ad-hoc page template, the template is automatically deleted together with the page.