What I've done for now is to go to the design view of the form, select the text of all the components, and add it to the Code Snippets window (select text, press Alt, and drag the text block to the Tool Palette). This means that when I want to create this "template", I have to go to the text view of the form and use the Code Snippet. I'm not thrilled about having to do this, but at least it's a workaround for now.
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