Today I opened Textedit and I cannot see the application menu bar that generally every document shows on the top of the document itself. I don't even find a command in the main menu bar to activate the document menu bar.
What can I do? Can I remove the pref file (where is it?) and restart my macbook? The application works but I cannot use a lot of features ....
TIA
Alberto
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), macbook pro 17" (early 2011)
Yes, you can try that.
Quit TextEdit then, from your Finder "Go" menu > "Go to folder" and enter
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist
Press Return.
Delete the plist file.
TextEdit → Format menu → Make Rich Text. That will restore the TextEdit toolbar, as plain text documents don't need it. Revisit your TextEdit Preferences : New Document panel : • Rich text.
Even if you have TextEdit to default to Rich Text (.rtf) documents, when you open a plain text document, the toolbar will be missing. If you want that plain text document to be Rich Text, then the first paragraph Format menu solution will restore your toolbars, but the document will not save as .txt, but as .rtf.
I'm very grateful to you because you solved my problem and I was never aware of what happened when changing from .txf to.rtf and the other way round!
Thank you very much!
I want to share 'live and learn' with macjack!
Live and learn, I never noticed that.
You are welcome.
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