Text edit

Hi--

I'm not sure what's happening, but here's a couple of things to look out for with TextEdit:

It has two modes. It either edits plain text or it edits rich text. In plain text, you don't have much control over the appearance of the printout, but it's great for writing and editing programming code. The rich text mode allows you to change the fonts, margins, etc.

You'll know if you're in rich text mode if you see a toolbar at the top of your window with a tab ruler, margin adjustments, and various menus and buttons for styles, alignment, spacing, etc. If you don't see this toolbar, go the the "Format" menu and switch it to "Make Rich Text".

Now you should be able to adjust the margins, fonts, type sizes, etc.

charlie

Normally text edit is set to wrap your text according to how big the window is, so you can't really see where the text are and how big they are on a page. To change to wrap to page, go to Format > Wrap to Page, then you should be able to get more control on page layouts.

There's no easy way to change margin, you need to go to File > Page Setup... and in Paper Size select Manage Custom size and set your own.

You can always preview the document by going to File > Print... (command-p) and click Preview.

hope this helps.

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Hi Teresa, sorry if I appear obtuse.

The "Blue Box" is at the top of the thread where it says "Answered ... ."

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Sorry, I didn't realize about the tabs on the rulers, oops. (guess need to read better). But I think the wrap to page is still correct, other wise the text flow to whatever your window size is, which is not really good for page layouts.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but you are right, though if the window is instead narrower than text, it will be wrap to window even if you have margin set, but this is still a rare condition.