Hi, That's fairly normal behaviour for a Word Processor. Consider that Bold, Italic and such are applied to specific text within a given area whereas alignment is applied to specific lines of text. Therefore, when the cursor is on a certain line of text, and the center alignment is applied, that line of text is centered. If your cursor was at the end of whatever you're typing, and you set it to Bold, then everything from then on would be bold until you turned that toggle off. If you put the cursor in the middle of some text, pressed cmd-b to start Bold, then only the new text entered would be bold.
Hope that makes sense. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-09-25, at 5:51 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I was playing with Text Edit again today and I think I figured something out. > In MS Word, you highlight the text you want to format and then apply the > formatting. In Text Edit, you do the same for bold or italic, but aligning > seems different. I think you can just move to the start of the text to be, > say, centered and press command vertical line. To stop centering, you press > command left brace. No highlighting required, you just issue the commands for > alignment where you want them and off you go, but remember to left-align > after you are done centering or everything will be centered. Am I right here? > Do even bold or other format commands work this way? thanks. > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
