you have the pulldown menu here to create this like that you can also create tables as well.
#APPLE TEXTEDIT CHANGE MARGINS HOW TO#
now put some text here just to test out some styling notice all the red dotted underlines they're misspelled words since im pasting in sample text here, of course theres lots of words that aren't real english words but i could select here the title, i could centre it, i could make it bold command b, or just go into format here, select fonts bold style all sorts of things like that i can increase the font size, im doing it with command and plus (+) and you can also use, in here make bigger and smaller you can even bring up show fonts here to bring up the default system fonts window and you can more control there, and for the rest of the text you can select that and assign styles to it as well for instance if you want indentation you can do that on a regular word processor, you can also set line spacing for instance single double other, bring it up, we're in half spacing, back in episode 172 i showed you how to do things like creating lists and indeed you can do that as well. When we first start TextEdit you may get a screen that looks like this and it doesn't look too much like a complex word processor as a matter of fact it may look even worse, it may look like this, just plain text, see TextEdit has two modes you change between the modes by going to format and either make rich text or make plain text, of course we want to be in the rich text mode to set ourselves up for some real word processing in addition to that you also want to go and set up wrap to page wrap to page will then create something that look more like a modern word processor where we actually can see the page boundaries right here.
#APPLE TEXTEDIT CHANGE MARGINS PROFESSIONAL#
now remember, programs like SimpleText on the mac, or notepad on windows and indeed TextEdit can do simple text editing but its much more powerful than that, and if you dont need a professional word processor like word or pages, it may fill all your word processing needs. So a lot of people dismiss the program TextEdit that comes with your mac as a very simple text editor. Video Transcript: Hi, this is gary with MacMost Now, on todays episode lets take a closer look at TextEdit and how you can use it as your main word processor. Check out MacMost Now 379: Using TextEdit For Casual Word Processing at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.