NEED HELP WITH TextEdit (Word Processor)

[sjpetry]

I was useing TextEdit in OS X and when you make the font bigger or smaller it doesn't tell you what point it is ( like 12pt font ). Is there a better freeware out there.

Please Help Me This paper is due tomorrow!

Thanks

 

[musicpyrite]

OpenOffice is an excellent alternative to TextEdit and MS Word.

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html

You could also download the free trial for Office 2004.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004td

 

[goodtimes5]

Press apple-T on your keyboard to bring up the font box. You can edit your size there.

 

[sjpetry]

I tried openoffice and it wouldn't work. Says it can't open X something.

Office won't let you print out thing during the trial version. 😡

i'll try again

 

[sjpetry]

Press apple-T on your keyboard to bring up the font box. You can edit your size there.

I am putting it at 12 which should an ok size but it is Very Very small on the paper. It says it is 12 but it is clearly not. 🙁

Can someone help me

thanks

 

[therevolution]

I am putting it at 12 which should an ok size but it is Very Very small on the paper. It says it is 12 but it is clearly not. 🙁

Can someone help me

thanks

Try something bigger than 12, maybe??

 

[mkrishnan]

More suggestions:

1) Did your iMac come with AppleWorks? It should be in the Applications directory, and if you're not willing to pay for Word, it's a not-half-bad option....

2) Try NeoOffice/J: http://www.neooffice.org/ It is a variant of OpenOffice, but more heavily mac-ported. I think OO is not running on your computer because you don't have Apple X11 installed. I don't think you need it for Neo though.

 

[sjpetry]

Try something bigger than 12, maybe??

Do you know what a 12pt on word would be in textedit?

 

[crackpip]

Do you know what a 12pt on word would be in textedit?

Did you select the text then change the font size? As far as I know font sizes are standard. Sometimes the font panel doesn't automatically update when you first bring it up. So click something like 14 then click 12 again.

crackpip

 

[MisterMe]

Do you know what a 12pt on word would be in textedit?

12 pt is 12 pt.

 

[mian]

Font size

More TextEdit options:

Under format select: Make rich text.

Under format select: font, show fonts.
Highlight the text, change font size.

 

[idkew]

you got it mian.

for some reason the default behavior of text edit makes it little like a regular word processor. maybe b/c apple wants you using appleworks for that...

 

[mkrishnan]

Assuming Mian's right (sounds right), then step 2 = go to prefs and change the default format to rich text so you don't have the issue again. 🙂 It's the top option on the left. Probably why I didn't even think of it when I saw this??? 🙁

 

[sjpetry]

you guys fixed it, thanks for everyone who posted. 😀