Or without Stationery Pad selected I could open it up and then remember each time to go to File, and Duplicate or hold the Option key down and do File, Save As to save a copy. It'll stay in its pristine condition because, sure I could go and every time I want to use this template select it, use File, Duplicate or Command D to create a new version of it. By using the Stationery Pad function I guarantee that I won't accidentally use the original file. Or I can just change it right here in the Finder. Or go to File, Rename and change it that way. For instance I could click here and change the name there. Now chances are that I want to change the name of this. I'm starting with a brand new file that has all the contents of the original file. So there's no danger of me overwriting the original report file. So I get Report copy rather than just Report. It creates a duplicate of that file with the word Copy after it. So I'm going to double click it and you would think it would just open that file. Now this file behaves differently when you double click it. I'm going to check that and then close this. The first one we're going to look at is called Stationery Pad. There are two check boxes here that will help us create a template from this file. If you don't see it you have to click here to reveal it. Now at the top here under General you'll see information about the file. Now I'm going to go to this file and use File, Get Info or Command i to bring up information about that file. I'm just going to save it like a normal TextEdit file and put it on the Desktop. So you could see here if I always have to start with this as kind of my template it would be nice to able to start with this rather than a blank document and have to type all this out.
Let's say as part of my job I have to create documents that look like this all the time. Now I'm going to create a New Document here. A pretty simple app for creating text documents. As an example here let's just use TextEdit. Files that you could use to start a new document instead of starting a blank document. So there's a really old feature built into macOS that allows you to create template files.
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