Apple Textedit For Mac

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In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File New, then choose Format Make Plain Text. Enter the HTML code. Choose File Save, type a name followed by the extension.html (for example, enter index.html), then click Save. If you want your new document to be saved in iCloud, select TextEdit in the iCloud section of the sidebar, then click New Document. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents. If TextEdit is already open, choose File New (from the File menu at the top of your screen) to start a new document. When the document opens, begin typing.

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Apple Textedit For Mac Windows 10

Version (as of 6/25/2020)	1.15
Platform
License	Bundled
Category	Productivity

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Software Overview

Main Features

Reads and writes files in either rich text or plain text format
Allows users to add graphics, pictures, and videos to rich text documents
Opens files saved in most popular text file formats, though some formatting may be lost

Apple TextEdit is a text editor developed by Apple and bundled with macOS. It is a simple word processor you can use to view and edit text documents.

TextEdit can read and write both plain text and rich text documents. The Rich Text Format (.RTF) allows you to format your document's text, adjusting its alignment, font, style, color, highlighting, and size. The text editor supports many different character encodings, including Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16), Western (Mac OS Roman), and Traditional Chinese (Mac OS). You can also add graphics, pictures, and videos to your document, converting its format to .RTFD (Rich Text Format with graphics).

While the program can open documents saved using most popular text file formats, such as Microsoft Office Open XML (.DOCX) and OpenDocument Text (.ODT), you'll likely lose some of your document's formatting and media when opening non-RTF or Plain Text Format files. For example, when opening a DOCX file, TextEdit will remove any pictures included in the document.

If necessary, you can save TextEdit documents using the Plain Text Format (by selecting Format → Make Plain Text from the TextEdit menu bar). Keep in mind, however, that doing so will remove any formatting and media you've added to your document.

Summary

All in all, Apple TextEdit is a handy, basic text editor for any Mac user. It is a useful tool for viewing and editing multiple types of text files. Just keep in mind that if you use TextEdit to open a DOCX or ODT file, the program will likely alter your document's formatting.

Supported File Types

Primary file extension

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.RTF – Rich Text Format File

Other file extensions used by Apple TextEdit 1.15

Supported File Types
.CFG	Configuration File
.CONFIG	Configuration File
.CSS	Cascading Style Sheet
.CSV	Comma Separated Values File
.DOC	Microsoft Word Document
.DOCX	Microsoft Word Open XML Document
.HTML	Hypertext Markup Language File
.INFO	Generic Information File
.LOG	Log File
.ODT	OpenDocument Text Document
.RTFD	Rich Text Format Directory File
.TXT	Plain Text File

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.AWK	AWK Script
.BMK	Nokia Device Bookmark File
.CEL	Celestia Script File
.CELX	Celestia Script
.CFG	Wesnoth Markup Language File
.COMMAND	Terminal Command File
.CONF	Generic Configuration File
.CRASH	Mac OS X Crash Log File
.DIZ	Description in Zip File
.DSC	Text Description File
.DTD	Document Type Definition File
.ENTITLEMENTS	Mac App Sandboxing Entitlements File
.ERB	Ruby ERB Script
.ERR	Error Log File
.GALAXY	Blizzard Galaxy File
.HAML	Haml Source Code File
.ICF	Zoom Router Configuration File
.IQY	Internet Query
.JAV	Java Source File
.JSON	JavaScript Object Notation File
.KDS	KD Player Skin File
.L	Lex Source File
.LIST	JAR Index File
.LST	Data List
.M	Mathematica Input File
.MAN	Unix Manual
.MARKDN	Markdown File
.MARKDOWN	Markdown Documentation File
.MD	Markdown Documentation File
.MDBACKUP	iPhone Data Backup File
.MDINFO	iPhone Backup Information File
.MDL	Warcraft 3 3D Model Text File
.ME	Readme Text File
.MENU	Quake 3 Engine Menu File
.MISSION	Vega Strike Mission File
.MNU	TomTom Menu File
.MPS	Mathematical Programming System File
.MXML	Flex MXML Component
.NFO	Warez Information File
.OCR	FAXGrapper Fax Text File
.OUT	Output File
.P6	Perl 6 Source Code File
.PANIC	Kernel Panic File
.PHL	Kindle Popular Highlights File
.PID	Process ID File
.PP	Pocket Physics Sketch File
.PROPERTIES	Minecraft Properties File
.PYM	PYM Macro Preprocessor File
.RPT	Generic Report
.RST	reStructuredText File
.RTX	Rich Text Document
.S2ML	StarCraft 2 Map Localization File
.S2QH	StarCraft 2 Localization Header File
.S2QL	StarCraft 2 Unit Localization File
.SC2LOCALE	Blizzard StarCraft 2 Localization File
.SCRIPTSUITE	AppleScript Script Suite File
.SCRIPTTERMINOLOGY	AppleScript Script Terminology File
.SHADER	Quake 3 Engine Shader File
.SHTM	HTML Server Side Include File
.SLST	Game Data File
.SMALI	Android Smali Assembly Language File
.SOUNDS	Quake 3 Engine Sound Definition File
.SPS	Quake 3 Engine Speaker Definition File
.SQL	Structured Query Language Data File
.SRC	Source Code
.SSC	Celestia Solar System Catalog File
.STRINGS	Text Strings File
.SYSTEM	Vega Strike Virtual System File
.TRI	Triangle Mesh File
.URL	Internet Shortcut
.UTF8	Unicode UTF8-Encoded Text Document
.VNT	Mobile Phone vNote File
.WEBARCHIVE	Safari Web Archive
.YML	YAML Document

Updated: June 25, 2020

TextEdit User Guide

You can use TextEdit to edit or display HTML documents as you’d see them in a browser (images may not appear), or in code-editing mode.

Note: By default, curly quotes and em dashes are substituted for straight quotes and hyphens when editing HTML as formatted text. (Code-editing mode uses straight quotes and hyphens.) To learn how to change this preference, see New Document options.

Create an HTML file

In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File > New, then choose Format > Make Plain Text.
Enter the HTML code.
Choose File > Save, type a name followed by the extension .html (for example, enter index.html), then click Save.
When prompted about the extension to use, click “Use .html.”

View an HTML document

In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File > Open, then select the document.
Click Options at the bottom of the TextEdit dialog, then select “Ignore rich text commands.”
Click Open.

Always open HTML files in code-editing mode

In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose TextEdit > Preferences, then click Open and Save.
Select “Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text.”

Change how HTML files are saved

Set preferences that affect how HTML files are saved in TextEdit.

In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose TextEdit > Preferences, then click Open and Save.
Below HTML Saving Options, choose a document type, a style setting for CSS, and an encoding.
Select “Preserve white space” to include code that preserves blank areas in documents.

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If you open an HTML file and don’t see the code, TextEdit is displaying the file the same way a browser would (as formatted text).

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