Start a new empty file.
Set it up anyway you want, add everything you need (that includes layouts,
layers, dimstyles, text styles and more). Yes, one file for all of that
stuff.
when you are done, SAVEAS, select Template from the file type pulldown on
the pop-up.
To edit an existing DWT, use Windows Explorer, change the DWT to a DWG, open
the file, do what you want, SAVEAS as noted above.
Now, what has any of this to do with Layouts creation? You seem to have
confused different tasks together.
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