OS X Mavericks on Demand

7. Working with Documents

What You’ll Do

Create and Open a Document

Edit Text

Recognize Handwriting Ink

Make Corrections

Make Text Substitutions

Check Spelling and Grammar

Look Up Words with Dictionary

Find and Replace Text

Format Text

Display Rulers

Set Paragraph Tabs and Indents

Change Character Spacing

Change Line Spacing

Add Lists and Tables

Apply and Create a Style

Insert Special Characters

Add Pictures, Movies, or Files to a Document

Save and Close a Document

Set TextEdit Preferences

Introduction

OS X comes with a word processing application, called TextEdit, you can use to create basic documents. TextEdit is designed especially for working with text, so it’s a snap to create and edit letters, or any other word-based communication. TextEdit ...