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j.7 Author

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Text Edit App - can I get an older version than TextEdit Version 1.18??

Textedit Version 1.18 (394) - highlighting background.

Hi…. I just upgraded to Ventura from Mojave. I thought new Mail was going to be my biggest headache, but I’m gutted by TextEdit.

I use Text Edit docs A LOT to my life, and they’ve been utterly messed up in the upgrade.

Where I have had varying background colours to differentiate sections in to do lists etc…, the solid block background colours have gone.

Coloured background only remain on actual text, not even for the whole width of the line & not on gaps/lines in-between.

I tried ‘justify text’ - no good.

Plus I used coloured background lines as separators for categories/different days instructions etc - which have all now vanished.

In this screenshot, they dark gray/grey boxes are me blanking details, but the orange colour used to cover that entire section, I have hundreds of similar Text Edits, sectioned using coloured background, seemingly ruined.

Is there any way of using an older version of Text Edit to get all my docs as they were???

It may seem minor, but the way I need to remember things to do, plan, etc etc etc. has been completely stuffed 😣

Thanks in advance for any help!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 28, 2023 10:39 AM

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FxcLogic

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8 points

Posted on Feb 23, 2024 5:19 AM

I've just bought a new M1 Air with Ventura 13.5. Like j.7 a big part of my work relies on TextEdit files. I have 100s and 100s of essential work files that are all colour-coded in sections (three background colours on the same page.)

The TextEdit version 1.18 is rubbish and cannot preserve years of work and 1000s of files as they were written.

Please offer TextEdit version 1.17 for current OS. It works perfectly on my other M1 running Monterey.

I would not have just bought this second M1 if I had known it would ruin years of work.

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