What is Stationary Pad in Mac Os X?

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Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file's parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.

What does Stationary Pad Mean on Mac?

The Stationery Pad is a way of saving a document as a template. As the Mac Help puts it: Using files as stationery. You can make a file work like a kind of template or "stationery." When you open a stationery file, a copy of the original is opened.

What is a Stationary File?

Stationery includes materials to be written on by hand (e.g., letter paper) or by equipment such as computer printers.