Hi @bhuhn,
It sounds like you are working through this fine.
One other way that I have done this if much of the work remains the same, is to create a Standards set of drawings with its own sheet set. In this set I had a titleblock dwg that would be referenced into each sheet. Each sheet was it's own drawing so for the most part, every drawing had only one layout.
The text parts of the Titleblock were all connected to the SheetSet.
Certain sheets like the cover sheet had all the general notes and such pasted into the layout. A viewport was provided so that a xref plan could be used for a keyplan.
Other sheets, such as a detail sheet, had most of the common details (views) in modelspace. Any that were not pertinent to the project would be deleted.
So, to use this set, one would simply copy it out of the read-only folder and paste it to their project folder. As long as you are careful with paths this seems to work pretty well.
John Vellek
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