Defaut rich text format

[brookter]

(Sorry if this is covered somewhere, but I’ve searched in forum and the manual and I haven’t managed to find a search string which brings up an answer…)

Is there a way of setting new defaults for the standard Rich Text Note (ie Data > New > Rich Text)? I know you can set the font in Preferences, but I’m looking for a way to set spacing or tabs for example.

I know I can set up my own template, and probably redirect the shortcut, but it seems there should be a way just to set the defaults for the standard note itself. Have I missed it?

Many thanks

David

[korm]

(removed; not helpful)

[brookter]

@korm

Make a new rich text document styled the way you want. If your default styled document has ruler and style settings, but no content, then add at least one character to the first line to ensure the styles persist when you save the document. (Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t, IME).

When the document is ready, use File > Export > as Template… and save the template. Now, when you want to create RTF documents with those settings, use Data > New From Template > [name of your template]. You may assign a shortcut to that name in Apple Menu > System Preferences > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts.

This approach works with almost any document kind.

Korm,

Thanks for the reply. As I said, I know how to do this - had already done it in fact. (You don’t need to assign a key through system preferences though - DTP’s ‘add three underscores and the key-combination to the filename’ trick works here as well.)

I was simply wondering whether there was a way to change the default characteristics of the standard note itself. You can change the font, so why not the other aspects? I could then, for example, have notes I create using the Take Note hotkey use that default format and not have to do the formatting afterwards. (Or at least, that was the plan.)

If there isn’t a way to do this, it’s not a big deal at all

Many thanks

David