I have just loaded Yosemite. When I open a TextEdit document the search bar no longer appears in the top right hand corner of the window. Is there a setting to get it back?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Then do Command-F for Find
Thanks for the reply. Yes the cmd-f worked. Here's the orginal TextEdit file:
this is the same file after cmd-f
After I close the file it reverts back to no search bar. I'd like to keep the search bar when I next open the text edit file.
Plus there is an additional problem. When I do the command-f the font shrinks !! If I am quick it just reduces by 1pt from 12pt to 11pt. If I am slow with my typing, it goes very quickly down to 5pt.
The search bar is triggered by the Find (cmd+F) shortcut. It is not a static, user configurable element that survives TextEdit sessions. I see no evidence in my TextEdit on Yosemite 10.10.2 that any font shrinkage occurs.
I use TextEdit all the time and use command-F for Find. I've never seen the font shrink.
There is no shrinkage on the Search bar in my TextEdit.
Note that the Search Bar when opened via Command-F is quite small - if say you have a large default font in your TextEdit.
I think the difference is my document is a plain .txt created with another program, for example Mac Notepad or MS Word. Under Lion and Mavericks there was a search bar in the window when you opened a Notepad doc, it's no longer there. So now I am trying to use the cmd-f and when you open with the notepad .txtx with the default textedit the font shrink occurs.
Hi Sparkleberry , thanks for the responses. I need to clarify, it is not the search bar itself that shrinks, it is the text in the doc. And it is a pain as I use the simple .txt as a reference.
First is the lack of search bar. When I used to open a notepad .txt file on Mavericks, the default Textedit program produced a search bar at the top every time I opened the file. Automatically, no command -f.
As you can see below, under Yosemite, no search bar. So my first issue is that I believe the behavior has changed, is this true? Is there no way other than the painful cmd-f everytime I open the file?
Secondly, I followed the advice above and did the cmd-f with the cursor to the left of the Blah Bhah text. When I hold down the CMD key and press '-' the font shrinks by 1pt as shown in the next graphic, when the 'f' is pressed the font does not shrink. Is this normal?
It Does Not Fall Far From The Tree wrote:
Hi Sparkleberry , thanks for the responses. I need to clarify, it is not the search bar itself that shrinks, it is the text in the doc. And it is a pain as I use the simple .txt as a reference.
Regarding the search bar - that explains a lot. I think everyone responding so far thought that the search bar was shrinking.
Regarding shrinking text, there is an easy explanation :
when you press Command plus - (minus) key you step down the font size in your selected text in TextEdit.
Do that again and you will go from Typeface Menlo size 17 down to 16, do it again and it goes down to 15 and so on.
Press Command plus + and you step up the selected text by a point size....and the process reverses itself.
So since you now know that "Command + minus" steps typeface size down and "Command + plus" steps typeface size up you can stop doing that and you won't have shrinking text
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Hah, thanks Sparkleberry. I typed the cmd-f as you had typed in the note above ... so the '-' was not necessary. I have been using a MAC for a couple of years, but still don't have all the shortcut keys down.
So I assume there is no way to set a behavior where Textedit always opens and has a search bar? I wonder if it was inherited somehow?? The original file was a simple Windows XP notepad .txt. I was not created on MAC Notepad. I use it a an store for bits of info I use many times a day. So it's a real pain to have to keep opening and then cmd f'ing it.
As a separate note. My MBP seams to have developed some wireless LAN issues since going to Yosemite. I have not got a fix on when it exactly happens, but after going to sleep is one place. If I open another tab in a browser FF or Safari, it takes a really long time to load the seach engine, sometimes I have to turn wifi off and on.
Have your seen any issue like this?
It Does Not Fall Far From The Tree wrote:
So I assume there is no way to set a behavior where Textedit always opens and has a search bar?
Not in this version of TextEdit. Click on
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
and give them your feedback.
So it's a real pain to have to keep opening and then cmd f'ing it.
One hand, two fingers....less than a second...
As a separate note. My MBP seams to have developed some wireless LAN issues since going to Yosemite. I have not got a fix on when it exactly happens, but after going to sleep is one place. If I open another tab in a browser FF or Safari, it takes a really long time to load the seach engine, sometimes I have to turn wifi off and on.
Have your seen any issue like this?
You would be best served by posting separate thread for this is a separate issue.
Where has the TextEdit search bar gone?
