Open Textedit On Mac

New Mac users may not know about TextEdit, a simple but deep text editing and word processing tool that comes with your Mac. You can use TextEdit to create documents in cases when a full word processor like Pages or Microsoft Word isn't necessary. TextEdit has two modes: plain text and rich text. You can use the first for writing, notes and coding. You can use the second for word processing. TextEdit also allows you to open Microsoft Word documents which is useful if you are sent one but haven't bought Word.

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Check out A Beginner’s Guide to TextEdit at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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-args arg1. DESCRIPTION The open command opens a file (or a directory or URL), just as if you had double-clicked the file's icon. If no application name is specified, the default application as deter- mined via LaunchServices is used to open the specified files. If the file is in the form of a URL, the file will be opened as a URL. I removed all TextEdit plist files and put them back one by one and TextEdit would not open. Therefore, I found the com.apple.textedit.plist file on my newer Macbook Pro 13 inch (2015) and copied it to my Macbook Pro 15 inch (2011) and now TextEdit opens just as it should! Both computers are running Sierra OS X 10.12.6. With TextEdit, you can open and edit rich text documents created in other word processing apps, including Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. You can also save your documents in a different format, so they’re compatible with other apps. How to open, edit, and convert documents.

Video Transcript: If you're new to Mac you may not even know about one of the most useful apps that comes with your computer. It's an app called TextEdit. It's a basic text editor that actually has a lot of functionality. For about 80% to 90% of all the things that people use word processors for you can just use TextEdit. You don't need Pages or Microsoft Word.Now you're not going to find TextEdit in the Dock by default. You have to go to either Launchpad or the Applications folder. I'm going to use Spotlight to search for TextEdit and launch it. You're faced here with a file open dialogue. You can select a file to open. I'm going to click New Document and it will open up a basic TextEdit window and I can start typing right away. Now there are two modes in TextEdit. This is the plain text mode. Notice there are no options here for changing fonts, styles, anything. You're just typing text and that's all you can do here. Now for a lot of things this is very useful. Typing quick notes or for just doing some basic writing that say you're going to copy and paste into an online post or another document. It's great. If you're a coder you can use this actually for creating HTML, scripts, and other things. The other mode, if you go to Format you can see Make Rich Text. I can convert this to Rich Text. Now I see all those options up here. I can select text. I can change its font. I can center. I can change its size, make something bold. I can add other lines. Maybe just make this one something else here. So you can basically do what you do with word processors most of the time. It's all available here in Rich Text Format. In Format you can go to Make Plain Text and you'll see you'll be warned because it's going to get rid of all the styling. So you can switch between the two of them. Under Preferences you can decide whether you want your default document to be Rich Text or Plain Text, plus a whole bunch of other options including the font used by the plain text editor here. Other Options here as well especially if you're a coder. What type of document you need the Plain Text documents to be. So there's a lot you can do here. You can even create bullet lists. You can insert tables. So you can see here this little interface for the type of table you want. I'm just going to Undo back to there. You can, of course, Save, Export as a PDF, Share in different ways. You can Print. You can do all the basic stuff you can do with other documents and things you would expect. You can even use Tabs here and go full screen mode for kind of a good writing environment. There's a lot of different things you can do with TextEdit. It's pretty full featured. It's a lot easier to get around it. You can pretty much play around for five or ten minutes and see all of the features and understand how to use them which makes it better than some word processors. You can play around for days in Microsoft Word and still not hit every feature.Another cool things that TextEdit does is it allows you to open up Microsoft Word documents. Because while Mac users all have Pages, it's just free, and we can all open up most Mac documents sometimes people sent you Word documents. You don't need to edit them in Word. You don't need to see everything in perfect formatting. You just need to see what the contents are. I get emails like that all the time and if I didn't have Microsoft Word how would I open them up. Well, you can open them up here in TextEdit. So I've got a word.doc here. You can, you know, use the File, Open function to open that. I'm going to drag and drop it into the Dock here onto TextEdit. It will open up this word document. The formatting is not perfect. There's revision notes turned on in this document but I don't see them here because TextEdit doesn't have revision notes. But I can read all the text. It comes out perfectly fine. So that's really handy if you get Word documents you can use TextEdit to go and open them up without having to buy Word or ask the person sending it to please send you a PDF or some other format.

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Answer (1 of 8): Two ways 1. Open your Application folder and type the letter ‘T’. That will get you near TextEdit in the list. (Do the same with the Applications icon in the Dock and you will be near TextEdit.

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Apple internal apps. Yep this can be an issue and I think this is why…

It is due to a conflict between storing files locally and in iCloud.

In the document that you can't save etc… in the Title Bar next to the document name > (Edited) is a disclosure triangle, click on that then change the file location to your computer, this should free you up. Be aware that if you store in iCloud or iCloud Drive you must have internet connections.

Also make sure you have not locked the file in the checkbox.

I have experienced this issue with Text Edit, Pages and Numbers and some other apps. My best guess is that iCloud somehow times out or locks you out after a certain length of time(???) therefore no saves, etc….

To open a file saved in iCloud Drive, you can open it in a New Finder window if you have 'exposed' iCloud Drive in Finder Preferences > Sidebar. A list of Apps and then list of all files will be available. If all else fails you can access via a web browser to your iCloud account.

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Bet you have different settings in System Preferences>iCloud Drive>Options>Documents>(Various Apps) on your laptop vs the iMac. Set these how you want.

Hope this helps, Greg

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