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TextEdit User Guide
Welcome
Create and open documents
Create, open and convert documents
Work with HTML documents
Hear documents read aloud
Format documents
Format with fonts and styles
Adjust paragraphs
Insert line, paragraph and page breaks
Change how text wraps
Print headers and footers
Set character and line spacing
Edit documents
Set the default font
Use superscript or subscript
Add tables and lists
Insert special characters
Add photos, movies and files
Annotate images
Use writing tools
Check spelling and grammar
Find and replace text
See word completions
Change TextEdit settings
Copyright and trademarks
In TextEdit, you can see RTF directives as plain text. An RTF directive is information in a document that formats the contents of the document.
Open TextEdit for me
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose TextEdit > Settings, then click Open and Save.
Select “Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text”.
Open the RTF file.
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