TextEdit User Guide
- Similarly Mac has its own TextEdit App which is installed by default in any Mac OS. One difference is that it is combination of Notepad and WordPad and hence you should choose the Make Plain Text format if you are working on simple text and don’t require any formatting. Mac Activity Monitor – Mac equivalent of Windows Task.
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In the TextEdit app on your Mac, do any of the following: Add a tab stop: Click the ruler where you want the tab stop. Change the type of tab stop: Control-click a tab stop, then choose one of the following tab stops: Left tab: Left-aligns text. Center tab: Centers text. Right tab: Right-aligns text. Decimal tab: Aligns numbers around a decimal.
In the TextEdit app, you can set preferences for all new TextEdit documents, and for opening and saving documents.
To change these preferences in the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose TextEdit > Preferences, then click New Document or Open and Save.
Note: You can change any document’s format at any time using the Format menu.
New Document options
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Format | Rich text: Set the default format to rich text. Rich text allows formatting, such as bulleted lists, that plain text doesn’t. Plain text: Set the default format to plain text. Plain text doesn’t allow text formatting. Wrap to page: Wrap text within the document’s page margins. Otherwise, text wraps to the document’s window size.
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Window Size | Set a default window size. |
Font | Choose a default font style and size for plain and rich text documents. |
Properties | For rich text documents, you can set the document properties by adding the author’s name, the organization name, and the copyright information. |
Options | Set default options to check or autocorrect spelling and grammar as you type. See Check spelling and grammar. Show ruler: Select to view the ruler in rich text documents. See Adjust margins and paragraphs. Data detectors: Automatically detect dates, times, and contact information in your documents. See Turn on data detectors. Smart quotes and dashes in rich text documents only: When you don’t want smart quotes and dashes to automatically substitute your straight quotes and double hyphens in plain text or HTML documents. Smart copy/paste: Automatically keep the correct spacing when you copy and paste text in your documents. See Keep the correct spacing when you paste text. Smart quotes: Automatically substitute curly quotation marks for straight quotation marks. To change the smart quote style in a document, choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions. See Change Keyboard Text preferences. Smart dashes: Automatically substitute an em dash (—) for double hyphens (--) in new documents. Smart links: Select to always convert web addresses to clickable links. See Add clickable links automatically to documents. Text replacement: Automatically replace text in new documents. For example, if you type “teh,” it’s converted to “the”. See Replace text and punctuation in documents.
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Restore All Defaults | Click to revert all preferences in both “New Document” and “Open and Save” panes to their initial settings. |
Open and Save options
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When Opening a File | Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text: Always view the HTML code when opening an HTML file. See Work with HTML documents. Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text: Always view RTF directives when opening an RTF file. See View the RTF directives in RTF files.
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When Saving a File | Add “.txt” extension to plain text files: Select to always use the .txt extension when saving a plain text file. |
Plain Text File Encoding | When opening or saving plain text files, choose the default text encoding options from the Plain Text File Encoding pop-up menus. See If characters aren’t displayed correctly. |
HTML Saving Options | Document type: Set the default document type when saving HTML files. Styling: Set the default type of cascading style sheets (CSS) when saving HTML files. Encoding: Set the default text encoding for saving HTML files. Preserve white space: Select to include code that preserves the white space in your document’s formatted text.
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Restore All Defaults | Click to revert all preferences in both “New Document” and “Open and Save” panes to their initial settings. |
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See alsoFormat with fonts and styles in TextEdit on MacChange Keyboard Text preferences on Mac