Mac Basics: Simple Documents With TextEdit 

Thank you Gary for another well executed tutorial. I use Text Edit all the time. I agree there should be an IOS equivalent (I generally default to Notes.) The one simple, yet powerful thing I do a LOT is to copy text (which I’ve written or grabbed) and drop it into TextEdit to listen to the computer read it back to me. The other day a high school English teacher went through all the logistics of explaining to her students about watching for “grammar and spelling” mistakes on their ChromeBooks. Later I asked why she didn’t have the students let the computer read the text back to them. Seems like that’s a job the computer should be doing. Her rationale was she didn’t like the voice that the computer used. Go figure? If I wasn’t heading to another classroom I would have explained to her that(at least on Apple) you can tweak the voices, the speed and the tone quality of the speaker. Wouldn’t have mattered, you can only help those who want to be helped and she felt she was helping her students, yet didn’t need her herself. Guess that’s one of the reasons I like your videos so much; you give it your all and help me tweak my processes. Keep up the great work!

A very useful video tutorial today. Thanks as always for the visuals! Thank you, Gary! 👍👏🏻❤️

This was so helpful for me to create key word searches for my Etsy Store products; I just type them in the Text Edit separated by commas, and copy and paste into the box below my product that I then upload! Thank you. This saved me a TON of time!

Thanks to this video I'll be using the Plain Text version by default from now on since I'm only using Text Edit for simple stuff, don't need the formatting, etc. Didn't know about the Plain Text version! If I need more options I can always use Pages but 90% of the time I'm only doing very simple things.

Your a good teacher! Thanks for this video, super helpful!

Never thought of using text edit for short notes and email text (always just open a word doc). Will give it a go. I do use it for stripping out formatting in a doc when I want to create text for a website.

Always great! Thank you!

Thanks Gary, yet another really helpful video.

Thanks for the video, I'm starting a web design class in college and this helped.

very helpful video. Thank you. I needed this video!

Thank you for the tutorial

Programs like this one , really sold me on Mac computers way back when.

Thanks dude another helpful video!

Thank for to this to follow, informative video. Really great info! Very helpful 💫🙏🏾🔥

I always had a windows computers and laptop, I'm new with Mac, thanks

Thank you sir

Thanks a lot

Thanks bunches

Very helpful indeed thank you! Would you please make a video about how I can use the screen and keyboard of my MacBook to access my mini Mac files? Thanks!

Thanks for a very informative video(as always). It would also be very interesting to see a video on an xml editing tool that you could recommend.

Very informative! When you have time, could you do a tutorial on how to organize an iTunes library on an iMac, managing and organizing playlists, adding lyrics, adding album artwork, editing the song metadata, getting rid of duplicates, etc...the whole nine yards. Thanks!!!

I did not know it supported rtf files. Excellent! In regards to grammar checking inside of TextEdit; it doesn't seem to work (that well). Create a short on how to use the TextEdit grammar features please?

Hi Gary This is a question about a past video. What was the video that you talked obout taking your pictures off your Mac and storing them on your back up hard drive. Thanks

how do you number the pages?????

Hello Gary! Thank you for you useful tutorial, but how can I return the deleted sentence or paragraph i.e. take a step back, thank you

Hi, great video. Is there anyway, while in rtf format, to evenly space the tabs along the ruler? My default is tabs up to "12" on the ruler. Is there anyplace to set this to be more useful instead of manually dragging each arrow, in every document I open, so the tabs are evenly across the width of the ruler?

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What is the best size to edit the pictures in Preview before bringing into RTFD?

Great tips. How does Text Edit compare to BBEdit?

Thanks! I have been using text/edit and it is great. Sometimes things that will not copy and paste into Pages will have no trouble copying and pasting into text/edit and then from there I can copy them into Pages if I need to. But how do I make a folder in text/edit? I have a bunch of single docs but I can't see how to group them in folders because I can't see how to create a folder.

how do you underline words on text edit?

Hi, Thanks for the video. i saw SF PRO font in your video. can you show how to use sf pro font for textedit ?

Hi Gary, can we use Text Edit as a web page document. And when typing HTML tags do we use the rich text or plain text?

I need help to work this text edit I called mac and the operator knew nothing how to do this??

Is there any way to add LaTex math formulas? Probably not since rich text may not allow it.

I’m trying to find out how to set double spacing.

The right side and bottom scrolling bar are always there when I open TextEdit. Previously they showed only when a mouse was connected. Do you know how I can remove them, to go for a more minimal, all-white look as you showed?

is there a keyboard shortcut to start a bullet list?

What do you do when you open documents in text edit and they come up in code?

Is this alternative of notepad on mac?

Hi, can I ask you a question? My macbook is always underlined when writing, it makes me very uncomfortable. Do you know how to fix this?

when i open Textedit, the position is always in the middle of my screen. i have to drag it to the side everytime. is there a way for it to remember it’s previous position in the screen?

what is the best way to get rid of multiple consecutive spaces and gaps in a long document? thanks.

Hello Gary. I know very, very little about computers and have access to a MacBook Pro. I want to write a book. Do you think it's possible (and/or a good idea) to attempt this using TextEdit? If not, what would you recommend? Any input would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

How do I keep the tools visible to use as I write? It keeps disappearing unless I click at top. (My first time using).

Do you have a video about how to make text in a mirror image ?

I use Windows at work but prefer MacOS. One option that i find in Windows I cannot find in MOS. I’ve got a folder full of files. I right click the folder and select New. From the drop down I select Text File. A new .txt file is created in that folder with the cursor ready to rename. This is how I create ReadMe files in Windows. Best I’ve come up with on Mac is to have a second finder window open to the applications folder, and I drag a copy of text edit from Applications to the desired folder. Any way to do this without opening a second window and without having to browse the save dialogue?

Hi, can you tell me how to change the default font face, size, and colour in TextEdit instead of changing them each time I open a new document?

I don't have the option to save it as a web page, does anyone know why?

How can I stop Text Edit on my Macbook From opening up documents. I want them to open up in Google docs no Text Edit.

Hey Gary, How do you make 2 columns on a page? Let's say I have 20 song lyrics and instead of printing 20 pages I want to make 2 columns and print only 10 pages. Thanks!

Is TextEdit free to use Or do I have to pay a subscription for it ??

how to delete a document?

im trying to save as word doc and its not showing this option, is this a new update?

Why was my comment deleted?

Why does mac go out of there way to make life so hard. I need to have a whole list of notes in different textpads. But I want them in the same window on differemt tabs. Its slows everything down, where I have to keep going to recently open to compare notes.. Windows allows you to open new window or tab. Text Edit is new window only. So damn annoying,

Too fast for beginnets

How do you save a font size so that it's size is automatically done when you open new?