(I plead complete ignorance)

I have a form I was asked to edit, don't know what it was based on.
I want the read to look exactly like the compose. I highlighted all the
labels, boxes etc and copied them from the "edit compose page" and when I
paste the to the "edit read page" I get a huge quantity of errors about can't
use this "filedname" in this item. is there an easy way to fix this?
Thanks for the understanding - Steve