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. Stickies Stickies creates virtual Post-it notes that you can stick anywhere on your screen—a triumphant software answer to the thousands of people who stick notes on the edges of their actual monitors. | . Stickies Stickies creates virtual Post-it notes that you can stick anywhere on your screen a triumphant software answer to the thousands of people who stick notes on the edges of their actual monitors. Like the Stickies widget in Dashboard you can open this program with a keystroke highlight some text then press Shift- -Y but it s a lot more powerful. You can use Stickies to type quick notes and to-do items paste in Web addresses or phone numbers you need to remember or store any other little scraps and snippets of text you come across. Your electronic Post-it notes show up whenever the Stickies program is running Figure 10-20 . Figure 10-20. In the old days of the Mac the notes you created with Stickies were text-only single-font deals. Today however you can use a mix of fonts text colors and styles within each note. You can even paste in graphics sounds and movies like PICT GIF JPEG QuickTime AIFF whole PDF files and so on creating the world s most elaborate reminders and to-do lists. . Creating Sticky Notes The first time you launch Stickies a few sample notes appear automatically describing some of the program s features. You can quickly dispose of each sample by clicking the close button in the upper-left corner of each note or by choosing File Close - W . Each time you close a note a dialog box asks if you want to save it. If you click Don t Save or press -D the note disappears permanently. To create a new note choose File New Note -N . Then start typing or Drag text in from any other program such as TextEdit AppleWorks or Microsoft Word. Or drag text clippings from the desktop directly into your note. You can also drag a PICT GIF JPEG or TIFF file into a note to add a picture. You can even drag a sound or movie in. A message asks if you re sure you want to copy the whole whopping QuickTime movie into a little Stickies note. Drag the icon of a PDF file into a note. Stickies can even accommodate multipage PDF files. At first you see only the .