TextEdit in Ventura 13.2

An albeit wonky/tedious workaround:

Cursor elsewhere in the doc with formatting you want, select and copy a space, cursor to where it you want to continue existing formatting, paste the space, type, and, if needed, delete the pasted space.

Maybe a shortcut can be a written?

FWIWs:

I filed feedback urging backing out the change or at least providing a "sticky text formatting override" in TextEdit/Settings (not something like the File/Save As fix ;-). I encourage others to do so also.

@leroydouglas:  The sticky text formatting behavior conflicts with what's done in the apps you listed- which greatly accentuates the TextEdit sticky formatting problem for anyone using any of those apps and the new/botched TextEdit in the Ventura 13.2 update.

Heavy TextEdit and Word user since 2008

bcmossman wrote:

I've noticed that when I move my cursor around in a TextEdit document with different fonts/formats in it, it has suddenly decided to start using the format from wherever I last was in the document in a different area where it is not appropriate: essentially changing my font in the middle of a sentence in a different paragraph. This is VERY annoying and never happened until quite recently. I have a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 with Ventura 13.2 OS. I looked through TextEdit Settings and can't figure out what it is: perhaps Text replacement?? No, I just unclicked that box and it's still doing this. WHAT's UP with that??

thanks,

loyal mac user since 1992...

The TextEditt.app is not a true text edtor but is convenient, however has it's short comings, yes.

Try the default set as plain.txt in Settings and compare your results..

Three file type in the TextEdit.app:

.txt

.rtf

.rtfd

If need be you can convert on the fly to rich text.rtf using the keyboard shortcut Shift Command T

There are other programs that you have more control..some examples might be:

• Pages.app
• Word.app
• LibreOffice.app
• Bean.app
• etc

you can file a bug report /submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

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