Importing field properties in a shapefile

[BenHawkins]

I am creating many layers (for each floor of a building) and each have the same set of attributes (Room Number, Area, etc.)  I am currently having to create them by using the 'Add Field' in the attribute table, and creating each attribute one at a time. My question is how can I import the attributes from one layer to another?  I can right click on the layer in ArcCatalog, and go to Properties, the under the Fields tab there is a button labeled "Import" that is constantly grayed out.  I feel like this worked in 9.3, but I can't figure out why it doesn't here, any ideas?

[JohnSobetzer]

It's also greyed out in my 9.3.1.  I used the Enhanced Shapefile Creator Arcscript in ArcMap to create new shapefiles with imported fields in 9x.  It won't install in my 10x which is unfortunate.  For existing shapefiles I would either create a new one and copy the features into it, or I take a copy of an existing one with the fields I wanted, delete its features, and then add new ones to it.

[AnastasiaMavridaki]

you can import the fields from a shapefile in the creation of a feature class in a geodatabase.
You can create a geodatabase, create a feature class and import the fields that you want to keep of a shapefile and then export the feature class to a shapefile.

[AnastasiaMavridaki]

if you finish the creation of the feature class and you do not import the fields of a shapefile during the creation then you cannot import the field from the properties of feature class-->tab field because the button of Import is gray out.