What Happens When You Choose New From the File Menu

A new “Untitled” document window appears each time you choose the menu command: File > New.

Apple uses the phrase “Stationery pad” in the Finder. You can turn any file into a “Stationery pad” by clicking the appropriate checkbox in the window that appears when you choose the menu command: File > Get Info in the Finder. The stationery pad is like one of those little pads your physician has for his or her prescriptions, or those pads of paper you get from your local realtor with his or her photograph and contact information at the top of each page and room for you to make your own “to do list” or “shopping list” or simply doodle to your heart's content. Each page of the pad has certain content that is “stationery” and you can add your content to it.

So it is in Nisus Writer Pro. You can create any number of “stationery” documents. Each one can have whatever name, text and/or formatting (even window shape and location) you want. Every time you open that stationery document the information you've saved in it appears and the file is called “Untitled”… ready for you to add new content and save as a unique document.

The Nisus New File shipped with Nisus Writer Pro illustrated in Figure 12 on page 8 represents little more than a blank sheet of paper with area for headers/footers and a number of embedded styles. If you want to modify your Nisus New File, for example change the margins or add information (such as the page number variables) you need to make these alterations in the actual file. This is explained in the section: “New File Preferences” on page 586.