Chapter 21
Words and Letters
IN THIS CHAPTER
Processing words with TextEdit
Finding out all about macOS fonts
Managing fonts with Font Book
As I discuss in previous chapters, your Mac is well equipped for creating and managing media — music, movies, and photos — but it is also ready to handle more common tasks, such as typing a letter or composing an essay. I think it’s fair to say that the TextEdit application we’re about to explore is all the word processor many users will ever need for casual everyday writing.
If you need more control over your pages than TextEdit provides, try Pages from Apple, a powerful word processor and page layout program. It comes preinstalled on some Macs, so you may already have it. If not, get it for free in the Mac App Store — it's also available online (and also free) at www.icloud.com.
Furthermore, macOS comes with a wide variety of fonts (sometimes called typefaces) plus a handy little app called Font Book for managing those fonts. Fonts allow you to change how text looks on the screen and the printed page.
In this chapter, you look at the macOS ...
Get macOS Big Sur For Dummies now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
