If you use TextEdit on Mac for your simple word processing and quick plain text editing needs like a Notepad equivalent from the Windows world, you’ll likely appreciate that the latest versions of Mac ...

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TextEdit – the default text editor on Macs, is quite good. In fact, if your only need from a text editor is to type out some stuff, format it a bit, and keep it, then TextEdit will probably fit the ...

A lot of people overlook TextEdit’s abilities as a word processor—in rich text mode, it’s actually not a bad tool for most word processing tasks. There is, however, one apparent omission: no way to ...

More Mac 101, our series of tips and tricks for novice Mac users. For those with modest text-editing needs, Apple's TextEdit is a great choice. Did you know that it's got an autocomplete option? David ...

If you keep on changing TextEdit from rich text mode to plain text each time you open the app, here's how you can change the default settings in the often-used text-editing tool. TextEdit is arguably ...

Mac users authoring text snippets, composing content, writing copy and otherwise drafting notes and ideas commonly turn to macOS’ own TextEdit. While it’s a competent text app, there’s no natural ...

Is there any way to recover a TextEdit document I deleted accidentally? Help! It can be a chilling moment when you realise that the important document you’ve been working on has suddenly disappeared.

During its What's New in Metal, Part 1 session at WWDC 2016, Apple used an iPad to demo the graphics API's new adaptive tessellation capabilities on iOS 10. At the 17:58 mark of the video, a TextEdit ...

CotEditor is a lightweight, native macOS app with features like line numbers and colored syntax highlighting. Positioned ...