Original review published on Steve Litchfield's 3-Lib.

John McAleely has stepped in where Psion themselves feared to tread, with this nice little freeware utility. Stationery Pad is very much what it sounds, a way of keeping a set of 'master' (i.e. template) documents in easily accessible form. I was looking at v1.0, grabbed from his web site.

With only the built-in Series 5 applications in your armoury, it is possible to implement a basic template scheme, at least for Word files, by creating a \System\Apps\Word\Normal document. But it's fiddly, unfriendly, doesn't work for all applications and only lets you have one template. Stationery Pad gets round all these objections and does it very neatly.

The first stage is, obviously, to create suitable templates. For example, Word files called SPLInvoice, Reject1, Reject2, Invoice97 or whatever. These could also be documents of other types, by the way. Then start up John's utility and use the 'New' button to convert these to Stationery Pad templates. And now the clever bit. By calling up the program (see the screen-shot) just double-tap on the template you wish to create a new instance of and Robert's your father's brother! It prompts you for a document name to use and then launches the appropriate application automatically.

Very slick and impressive. There's a basic, but well done, set of help screens and installation was a breeze. Buy that man a beer!

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