Questions tagged [textedit]
TextEdit is an Apple text editing application available on OS X. It supports Rich Text (.rtf) and plain text (.txt) formats.
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textedit macos: after new line background color is not applied
In textEdit application in macbook ( Sonoma OS v.14.2.1), there is an ambiguity in display of background colour for same file formats rtf, rtfd. When i hit enter and move to new line, for some files ...
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MacOS 14.1 autocompleting in American (I'm in the UK)
This issue affects all native text apps (Notes, TextEdit and Mail). It does NOT affect Safari. Nor does it affect Notes and Mail on iPadOS (17.1) (that's still in the UK)
I can't recall when I first ...
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How to “Save As” a document in macOS? I can only “Save” the document
I am new to macOS computers. I am use to using Notepad on a Windows PC. I make my own invoice using Notepad.
First I make what I call a header for specific clients with just the info needed to keep ...
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How can I change the font family of pasted URLs in textedit in Mac
since a few weeks I have the problem that when I use textedit on Mac the font that I use in the document is different to the one that is used when I paste a link in it.
I use Helvetica in the ...
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MacOS automatically saves changes when closing TextEdit
If I don't intentionally save a document in TextEdit, I expect it to be left as is. That is, I expect a changed document to prompt "Do you want to save?" so that I can choose Delete. This means you ...
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Mac TextEdit Settings
When using TextEdit on a mac, I disable various Substitutions and Spelling and Grammar options (e.g., Edit -> Substitutions -> Smart Copy/Paste). But they come back every time I re-open a document. Is ...
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How to make Mac OS X <Cmd-f> "find" feature local to application window
Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5
Sometimes I open up multiple windows of TextEdit and multiple tabs on Chrome and use the Cmd-f to find certain text. In each window, I'm looking for different texts. ...
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El Capitan TextEdit bug: renaming file on desktop moves the file's icon
I upgraded my OSX from 10.8.6 to El Capitan (10.11.5) and since then I’m having this bug:
modify and save a text file located on Desktop using TextEdit app --> Sometimes the file icon is moved to a ...
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How to add extra text encodings to TextEdit on Mac OS X?
When saving a file as in TextEdit on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), you can choose a text encoding for the file. There are a few options and then at the bottom “Customise Encodings List…”
However, the ...
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TextEdit indent with numbers
To indent a paragraph in TextEdit I found that I can go to Format > Text > Show Ruler and then drag the indent. The problem is that it is very difficult to give a exact number, for instance 1cm.
Is ...
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OSX TextEdit save with the first line
Is it possible to make TextEdit save an unnamed opened file with the first line (or first word) of the text of that document?
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I create a new text document in TextEdit;
write the first line as I ...
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How to recover an html file overwritten by TextEdit (Mac)
For some reasons, I decided to open a Javascript file in .html format using Mac's TextEdit.
Instead of loading the .html in text format, as the name TextEdit implied, it rendered the .html file.
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textedit file delete after restart on Mac OS X
Situation
I got textedit file, which was already saved, but not closed, opened while I was restarting Mac OS X system.
The problem
After restart the file was not there in folder and I was unable to ...
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SRT Subtitles - issue with line breaks
I've manually created an SRT file through textEdit.
I used all the right formatting and it played well on VLC.
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00:04:23,020 --> 00:04:24,230
- Nah, I'm not hungry.
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TextEdit: RTF to PDF: a hyperlink issue
As we know we can add a hyperlink into our .rtf documents.
How to ask TextEdit to generate PDF with hyperlinks that are visible (blue colour and underline style)?
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