Set up your page exactly as you like, including size, orientation, margins, and in Options you can choose your unit and nudge sizes, duplication distance, etc.
Go to File/Save Template and check the “Use as default template" box there, and give the page a name before saving.
From then on it should open as your default page.
*Edit - to alter page size (to AO etc), you go to Options/Page.
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