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You can change TextEdit to handle plain text: Format > Convert to plain text, or Shift + Command + T. I prefer TextEdit over Notepad. Its undo is way better, a
by rpgbr 2y ago
You can change TextEdit to handle plain text: Format > Convert to plain text, or Shift + Command + T.
I prefer TextEdit over Notepad. Its undo is way better, and it's overall a snappier app.
- sbuttgereit 2y agoI can do something similar with Microsoft Word as well. But I also risk losing something in the process. Did I emphasize things with bold or italic in the editor? That will be lost when saving to plain text. In that sense Word and TextEdit are both correctly called rich text editors which just happen to have the ability to save to plain text. Notepad, however, doesn't support the formatting... so you can't create something that you can't save. That's the difference.
- setopt 2y agoI disagree. Go into the TextEdit settings (Cmd-,) and change the default format from "rich text" to "plain text". Next time you open TextEdit, all rich-text features are disabled (no formatting toolbars, no Cmd-B/Cmd-I keybindings, etc.), so the interface is to me indistinguishable from NotePad. This is completely different from Word.
- CoryAlexMartin 2y agoYou cannot use bold or italics in plain text mode in TextEdit. It is truly a plain text mode. If you try to switch from rich text to plain text, and you utilize any rich text features in your document, it will warn you that you're going to lose that information.