Creating new pages from a Template without changing the original

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I've tried the search function and didn't find an answer, so I hope this
isn't an oft-asked question.

I have a very low-tech website that I originally built with Boomerang's
Design Shop. A large part of the website consists of a series of pages
with the same format, but with unique individual content. I had set up a
"template" page with the basic format (background, frames, blank fields,
navigation bar), which I was able to copy, re-name, and fill in for each new
page.

When I try and do this with FrontPage 2003, I get two pages that seem to be
linked such that changes to one are automatically made to the other. I have
tried "create new from existing," and "create from template" (after setting
up my blank page as a template), and I always get the same thing - whatever
new page I create is tied to the original somehow.

Short of building up each new page from scratch, is there any way to make
new pages from an existing blank and not have it automatically change the
original every time I try and change the new page?
 
Sounds like you are using shared borders.
Have a look at Dynamic Web Templates instead. These are basically what
you used in Boomerang. Any change to non-editable regions in the DWT
will be copied to all attached pages. Any change to an editable region
will only affect new pages created from the DWT, and blank pages that
the DWT is then attached to. Any change to an attached page will only
affect that page.

With shared borders, any change in the shared border area will affect
all pages using the shared border.
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