

Things for changing the font, the size, bold, all this stuff here as well as Ruler here at the top. You can tell if you're in Rich Text Mode because you'll see at the top lots of styling buttons. In Rich Text Mode you're actually using a simple word processor.

They are Rich Text Mode and Plain Text Mode. The most important thing to know about TextEdit is that it has two modes. You can also see recently opened documents above that. Or in the Dock you can click and hold and select New Document there. You can also go to File, New to create a new document. So when you launch TextEdit it will prompt you to open up a new document or you can click the New Document button right here. You can drag and drop that to the Dock to add it there for easy access. Or you could go to a New Finder Window to Applications. You can bring up Launchpad and search for TextEdit and launch it from there. You can use Command Space to bring up Spotlight and search for TextEdit and then launch it from there. But you can launch it like any other app. These could be opened in almost any platform.īy default you won't find TextEdit in the Dock on your Mac. Instead you use a standard cross platform format like Plain Text or Rich Text files.

One of the things that makes it so powerful is the fact that it doesn't use a special format. It's a very lightweight, easy to use quick tool that's actually pretty powerful. It allows you to create and edit simple word processing and text documents. So TextEdit is an app that comes built-in to macOS. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let's take a look at the TextEdit App that comes with your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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