Hi Brianna, Yes, leave your TextEdit documents in Rich Text format especially when using it as a word processor. You have much more capabilities with respect to formatting and such that are not inherent in a Plain Text document. I tend to only use Plain Text when using TextEdit for HTML sorts of things.
You are welcome to look at any other pages on my site. Not everything is totally Snow Leopard up-to-date, but certainly helpful in my opinion. Later... On 2010-12-04, at 2:29 PM, Brianna Snyder wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for all those instructions. The ruler was set to show itself in the > preferences, so I'm not sure. I'm thinking that since you said it usually > won't show in plain text mode, that's my problem, though. So I should choose > a different document format? > > Thanks for all your help, > Brianna > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Kilburn" <kilbu...@shaw.ca> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 4:05 PM > Subject: Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit > > > Hi, > > If your ruler is not showing itself, you may have accidentally pressed cmd-r > which hides it. Try this: > > 1. Press cmd-comma to bring up your Preferences. > 2. Make sure the New document tab is selected. > 3. Navigate until you find the Show Ruler checkbox. > 4. Make sure it is checked. > 5. If the ruler still isn't showing after you return to the regular TextEdit > window, just Quit and re-open TextEdit and it should show itself. > > Also note, that the ruler usually will not show when in Plain Text mode. > > If you'd like any other suggestions with TextEdit, you can check out my page > at: > > http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/textedit.html > > Later... > > On 2010-12-04, at 12:45 PM, Brianna Snyder wrote: > >> Hi Colin, >> >> Thanks, that'll definitely help. But...I can't find the ruler. When I open >> TextEdit, I'm interacting with the edit field. When I uninteract with that, >> I see the regular close, zoom, minimize buttons, and I see untitled, and the >> edit text field. >> Where is the ruler located? I have seen it before, I just don't know how I >> got to it. >> Maybe there's a command I'm missing or something. >> >> Thanks for your help, >> Brianna >> On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Colin M wrote: >> >>> Hi Brianna! >>> When you've opened a new text edit window scroll to the ruler and interact >>> with it vo+space+down arrow or with quick nav just press down the >>> down+right arrows together and in there is a menu to change line spacing >>> and other stuff! >>> when you are done just stop interacting with vo+space+up arrow or with >>> quick nav left and down arrows together! >>> there is a command to bring up fonts command+t how you use it I'm not sure! >>> hth Colin >>> On 4 Dec 2010, at 18:52, Brianna Snyder wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I just got a MacBook Pro about three weeks or so ago. I love everything >>>> about it, all except one thing. >>>> What I'm primarily using my window PC for now is writing papers. This is >>>> because I can't figure out how to change the spacing to double, and the >>>> font to times new Roman, and to size 12 from within TextEdit. I know that >>>> the font changing can be done with the format menu, I think, but I'm not >>>> sure how to do that, and save those changes to the document I'm working on. >>>> What I'm not sure can be done is double-spacing. If so, can anyone tell me >>>> how to do this, and how to change the font? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Brianna >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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