Questions tagged [textedit]
The built in text editor with Mac OS X. It started on NEXTSTEP, and was then included as a replacement to SimpleText when Mac OS X shipped. The project is also open source.
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How can I add services to the Textedit images menu in macOS 15?
In the top left corner of the image, after having dragged & dropped an image into TextEdit. If you click the image and hover over it, a menu will appear. How do I add image manipulation services ...
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Automating multiple global replace in TextEdit?
For language learning, I frequently copy text from a website, paste into TextEdit, and do more than a dozen formatting changes. Several of these are the same for all languages, so I save the file, do ...
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macOS TextEdit misbehaving after opening a binary mp4 file
Using Sequoia, I loaded an MP4 into textEdit because I was trying to find out if it had shellcode in it, and it has jammed up TextEdit I have to force Quit it this app repeatedly when I try and open ...
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Not opening last version of a synchronized file
I regularly notice following behavior when synchronizing files with client-server software, especially with .txt files. Mac computers A and B contain an up-to-date version N of a file file.txt. I edit ...
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Text Edit Copy/Paste bug / malware? Terminal fix?
I've got an older air running Big Sur, updated as far as it'll go. When I copy/paste from or into Text Edit, maybe other programs as well but I've only noticed with Text Edit, the text I copy from or ...
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how do you "SAVE AS"? [duplicate]
I am on Mac OS 12.4, I make a new file in textedit, I save it and give it a name... I slightly modify the contents-- and I want to keep the original, but have a variation.. I click File to choose &...
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Emoji shortcut changed [duplicate]
Since I updated to the new MacOS Sonoma when I am on YouTube and want to put in an emoji the function key with the round circles no longer works. It only brings up a very small square thing. I have to ...
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How can I revert the redesigned strange-looking text cursor after a Sonoma upgrade?
An issue I noticed is that there is a funny cursor locator blinker when using TextEdit app in the new Sonoma MacOS version. It is now an orangey colour and slightly wider. Awful aesthetics. How do I ...
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How do I make TextEdit open documents in a new window in Sonoma?
I've just got a new iMac, running Sonoma. My old iMac was running Catalina. When I open an .rtf document while another document is also open in TextEdit, it opens the second document in a new tab in ...
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Cannot set default file associations for .xml files
I'm on MacOS Ventura. I use it for work so MS Office is installed. No matter what I do, XML files seem to always want to open with MS Word. I want them to open with another app. I'm using TextEdit as ...
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TextEdit disables menu when selected text has different fonts/styles
Prior to Sonoma, when using TextEdit (virtually always editing rich text docs), I could select any text and add/remove a style to whatever styles were present in the text. For example, if I had a ...
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macOS Sonoma (14.1) Native text apps - Mail, Notes and TextEdit - autocomplete in US English (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). Only autocorrect works in ...
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How do I change the TextEdit document background color in macOS Ventura?
Since updating from Mojave to Ventura, some of my TextEdit documents no longer have a background color and some do. I'd like to set a background color again. Apple mentions, in the Ventura TextEdit ...
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How can I change the Main Menu name of a copy of TextEdit.app?
I am trying to create a duplicate TextEdit.app to be able to have open a very specific set of TextEdit files, not affected by other TextEdit files that may or may not be in use. I can simply copy ...
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How to make TextEdit open with most recent file by default? [duplicate]
Yes, I can see the list of recent files. I would like it to open the most recent file automagically. I don't see an option for this in TextEdit > Preferences.
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