Saving Customized Settings as Stationery Pads

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Every new document created with ChemDraw uses a Stationery Pad to obtain its document settings. Stationery Pads can also contain predefined objects. When you create a new document, you actually create an untitled copy of the Stationery Pad. Any changes you make to the copy of the Stationery Pad do not affect the Stationery Pad itself.

You can create a Stationery Pad with your own customized setting by saving it as a .cds file. If you store the .cds file in the ChemDraw Items folder, it appears in the Open Special menu so you can access it from the File menu.

To save a document's setting as a Stationery Pad:

1. Choose Save As from the File menu.

The Save As dialog box appears.

2. Name the file and change the type (in OS X: format) to ChemDraw Stationery.

3. To save the file in the ChemDraw items folder, click the Go To ChemDraw Items button.

4. Click Save.