Thanks Kirk.
1. The idea is to personalise Stationery Pad columns so that each column is roughly equal with a few extra fields more than the Classic IPTC that I initially use on ingesting and sending pictures to the agency.
2. I have disabled with 'false' in the Enabled and Visible columns all the fields that do not apply to my work and there are quite a few.
3. I have then moved the 'Contact' and 'Image Rights' fields applicable to me to the second column along with the 'Image Preferences' fields of Colour Class, Rating and Tag. In this case when I moved the Rating field it disappeared. I then made the mistake of saving the template to look at the finished Pad and could not then find that field in the template when I went back to it although it was still on the Pad itself in its original position. This is similar to what happened the first time I reported the problem.
4. I exited PM and rebooted the system but it was still not in the template. I then tried to reproduce the problem with other fields and it happened again with a different field moving it to column 2. However, this time I did not save the template and the field reappeared in its original position. Trying it again the field, Title, was successfully moved to column 2 but the Rating field is still not present in this template.
I am sure if I started from scratch again I could probably get the Rating field or any others into column 2 if I don't keep saving the template to look at the working Pad but I am a bit pushed for time. I hope this helps.