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TextEdit is a free word processor that has long been included as part of Macintosh operating systems (it was originally created for the NeXTSTEP operating system and came to Apple as part of the company’s acquisition of NeXT and its software, which would soon become the foundation of OS X). Despite its relatively basic interface, TextEdit has grown into a powerful application that can easily handle most simple word processing requirements. TextEdit is able to offer these capabilities thanks to robust support for rich text formatting, which allows users to change fonts, sizes, colors, and more — in essence, the bulk of what most consumers think of when they picture more advanced word processing applications such as Apple Pages and Microsoft Word.

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  1. Jul 26, 2012 Click to expand. Open another Finder window where you can see the TextEdit document you want to copy to iCloud, then drag it over to the iCloud for TextEdit window. If you want to create a new TextEdit document directly to iCloud, simply click the 'New Document' button while the iCloud for TextEdit view is open.
  2. I am glad to find that this app does the same things I do on TextEdit on the iMAC. It works with iCloud in the standard way. I don’t use it for fancy editing, just basic documents. It is the best I have found for rtf and rtfd. Minor issues: it is easy to put in tabs but only at std spacing and there is location called “.

TextEdit offers powerful rich text formatting options

May 22, 2013 There’s two ways to delete TextEdit documents from iCloud. The first one is as simple as opening TextEdit, clicking the iCloud button in the top left corner, right-clicking a file, and selecting the ‘Move to Trash’ option. Though do make sure first that the file is not in the process of syncing or uploading. Jul 11, 2012 Currently, apps have to be written to take advantage of iCloud. TextEdit in Mountain Lion does this. Launch TextEdit and select the open command (command-O). You will be presented with an open dialog box that allows you to open files from either your Mac or iCloud.


Textedit icloud sign inIcloudBut sometimes it’s best to use TextEdit Plain Text Mode, which eliminates all formatting and, you guessed it, produces only plain text. This can be useful for removing the formatting from copied text, working with code, or reducing the complexity and file sizes of documents that don’t need the benefits of rich text formatting.

Convert Rich Text to Plain Text in TextEdit

TextEdit opens a new document in rich text mode by default, but you can easily convert a document to plain text at any time. To do so, make sure the document you wish to convert is open and selected, then go to Format > Make Plain Text in the TextEdit menu bar. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-T.
You’ll get a confirmation box warning you that making a document plain text will remove all formatting; make sure you heed it carefully. If you select OK, everything except for your document’s text will be removed. This includes custom fonts, font sizes and styles, colors, bold, italicized, and underlined formatting, embedded images, and hyperlinks. The result will be clean, simple, plain text.

Converting a document to plain text removes all formatting

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Macos textedit icloudYou can always convert a TextEdit plain text document back to a rich text document, but that only applies to Textedit icloud loginnew formatting; you won’t get your original formatting back. So, with this in mind, make sure you really want to convert from rich text to plain text, and make a backup copy of the document if you’re not completely sure.

Use Plain Text by Default in TextEdit

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If you’re a budding programmer or blogger and you want a plain text environment to write code or HTML, you’ll likely want to use TextEdit plain text mode almost exclusively. Instead of switching each new document to plain text mode manually using the steps above, why not set TextEdit to open in plain text mode by default?
To use plain text by default in TextEdit, go to TextEdit > Preferences in the menu bar. On the New Document tab, select Plain Text in the Format section. You don’t even need to close the preference window to initiate the change. As soon as you click the Plain Text button, all new TextEdit windows will open in Plain Text Mode.
Alternatively, of course, you can go back to this preference window and select Rich Text instead if you ever want to switch back to rich text by default. Of note, you can also use this preference window to set other useful default options, such as enabling or disabling text wrap, the default font for both plain and rich text documents, and the default size of new TextEdit windows.
If you ever make too many changes and want to revert to the original configuration settings, just click Restore All Defaults at the bottom of the preferences window.
There are many powerful third party apps dedicated to plain text and coding on the Mac — options like BBEdit, TextWrangler, TextMate, Sublime Text, and Coda come to mind — but TextEdit is free, always available, and quite capable of handling all the basics. By properly navigating the appropriate uses for rich and plain text, TextEdit should be your first stop for plain text editing in OS X.

TextEdit User Guide

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TextEdit automatically saves your documents as you work on them. If you want, you can save a document to name it, save it in a certain location, or save a particular version.

If you save documents directly in iCloud, they’re available on all your devices set up with iCloud Drive. To save documents in iCloud, you must have iCloud Drive turned on. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents.

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  1. In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File > Save.

  2. Name the document, add one or more tags, select a location, then select a format.

    To save your document in the TextEdit folder in iCloud Drive, click the Where pop-up menu, then choose “TextEdit — iCloud.” If you choose iCloud Drive in the pop-up menu, your document is saved in iCloud Drive, but not in the TextEdit folder. If you don’t see the pop-up menu, click TextEdit in the iCloud section of the sidebar.

  3. Click Save.

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Tip: To save a copy of a document, hold down the Option key, then choose File > Save As. Type a name for the copy, then click Save. You can edit the copy in the open TextEdit window.

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