SimpleText

SimpleText (Figure 1) is a basic text editing application that comes with Mac OS. SimpleText lets you:

Figure 1. The SimpleText application icon.

  • Create, open, edit, and print text documents, including the "Read Me" files that come with many applications.

  • Open and print PICT, GIF, and other graphic format documents and QuickTime movies.

In this chapter, I tell you how to use Simple-Text to create, edit, format, open, and save documents.

Tip

QuickTime Player, which also comes with Mac OS, offers more features than SimpleText for working with QuickTime movies. I tell you about QuickTime and QuickTime Player in Chapter 6.

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