Setting TextEdit Preferences

TextEdit preferences help you configure some of the more common features of the program. You can set preferences for new documents, default fonts, rich text processing, default plain text encoding, editing, and saving. These preference areas allow you to turn features on and off as well as customize the way TextEdit works.

Set General Preferences

Click the TextEdit menu, and then click Preferences.
Select or specify the various options you want to use:
  • New Document Attributes. Select options for document format and ...

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