Hopefully some of you will find it helpful in your workflow.Apple Mail (officially known as simply Mail) is an email client included by Apple Inc.
The arcane Stationery Pad feature can be quite useful under certain circumstances. If you become a fan of Stationery Pad, it's important to note that starting with Lion, the only way the above works is by opening your "template" file from the Finder, not from within the app via File > Open. I've noticed that because of Apple's new "Modern Document Model" which introduces Auto Save and other goodies, things have changed a bit when using Stationery Pad.
Opening the template file from Finder will create a copy of the file and open the copy for editing in the app. If I need to make changes to the actual template, I simply turn OFF Stationery Pad for the file, make my change, then turn it back ON. From then on, when I open this Stationery Pad file, Finder first makes a copy and opens the copy, leaving the original template file closed so it can't be accidentally edited. Then, in Finder, I select the file and do a Get Info and set the Stationery Pad attribute as described above. I rely on templates quite a bit to make work easier, so I create templates with my preferred text formatting, margins, etc., and I save them as regular TextEdit files with an appropriate file name, like "TMO Article TEMPLATE." Among other things, it does not have a "Save as Template" feature. TextEdit is a simpler word processing app than Pages. When writing articles for posting here on TMO, I generally like using the venerable TextEdit app. Here's an example of how I use Stationery Pad. Creating and using templates in your workflow can be a huge time saver. Major productivity apps like Pages, Numbers and Keynote do provide a template creation feature. This is especially valuable when using apps that don't have a built-in template creation feature. If you understand the memo pad analogy, then you'll understand how the Stationery Pad feature works on your Mac.Įnabling the Stationery Pad attribute for the selected file essentially turns it into a template. Underneath, you find a pristine sheet of paper ready for the next memo. What do you do when you need to jot something down on paper? Typically, you tear off the top sheet from the pad, write on it, and dispatch the sheet as needed. It may be a memo pad of paper with your name and address pre-printed on each sheet. Think of how you use a real stationery pad, you know, of the dead-tree variety. Towards the top of the Get Info panel, in the General section, you'll see a checkbox named "Stationery pad." There it is! That's the only place, short of issuing terminal commands, where you toggle this feature for the selected file. Click the Stationery Pad checkbox to enable. This is the Get Info panel for the selected file. Think of Get Info as a "File Inspector." For you switchers out there, it's similar to "File Properties" in Windows. I like using the shortcut CMD-I and actually go there frequently for other reasons, such as adding Spotlight comments, checking sharing and file permissions, and gathering other interesting trivia about my files. While in Finder, select the document file, then go to File > Get Info. There is only one way to get to that switch: via the Get Info panel for the file. It's available to you for any of your document files. Stationery Pad is actually a file attribute you switch on and off.
I know what you're thinking: "What the heck is the Stationery Pad feature, and why is this so important?" Well, in the big scheme of all-things-Mac, it's not that important, but it IS a cool, moldy-old feature that does come in handy at times.
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Well guess what, this obscure but handy little feature has been around on the Mac since the days of Mac OS 6, and I'm fairly sure even before that. The Stationery Pad feature in Finder-when I mention this in passing to my students and clients, most of them give me that deer-in-the-headlights blank stare, usually followed by, "uhh, yes, Sandro… the Stationery Pad." But they know that I know that they have no idea what the Stationery Pad feature is!
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