#MAC TEXT EDIT SERIES#

The Home Tab, a View Tab, Help and an Application Menu. Pressing the Alt Key opens a ribbon, much like what you would see in many other Windows applications. As expected, upon opening WordPad, you are presented with a blank document where you can begin typing. WordPad can be found in the Start menu under All Programs, Accessories, WordPad or just do as I do and type Word in the Search Field, select WordPad and press Enter. WordPad also has some very nice features for the casual writer, who doesn't need to track changes and perform some of the more advanced functions that come with MS Word. It is free and comes already installed on your Windows machine. I want to introduce you to WordPad for a specific reason though. Yes, I can here you all now 'what about Microsoft Word?' Take my word for it, we will cover MS Word in the future. One often overlooked yet powerful document editor for Windows is WordPad. Whether you are writing a post for your blog or taking notes at a meeting, we all have a need to work on a document at our computer.

You can do this by either locating the Text Edit icon in your Dock and then press VO+Spacebar, or you can go into your Applications Folder and locate the program and open it from there. To work on a document in Text Edit you first need to open the program. It consists a feature named 'Extract' which permits you to take different fonts, colors and measurements. Bracket is unique from other text editors due to its interface and design. It is an open source and has been developed by Adobe. So get your writing hats on and lets talk some text editing.īracket is the simplest and the most famous text editor for Mac.

It is true that there are other more feature rich options for word processing but there are also two very capable free solutions on both Windows and Macs.

#MAC TEXT EDIT SERIES#

In this weeks edition of The Switching To A Mac Series Damshe and I will be talking about using the built in text editors on both the Windows and Mac platforms.

Mac text edit