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Here’s Where to Find a Word Count in TextEdit
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Here's Where to Find a Word Count in TextEdit

Andrew Orr · 1:55 PM EST, Jan 24th, 2022 · Add Comment

Michael Rankin, an instructor at LinkedIn, wrote a tip last year about finding the word count in TextEdit on the Mac.

macOS: How to Use Substitutions in Text
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macOS: How to Use Substitutions in Text

Melissa Holt · 7:00 AM EST, Nov 29th, 2018 · 4 Comments

Today’s Quick Tip focuses on a neat trick in Pages (and Mail and TextEdit!) that’ll let you change straight quotes to smart ones or hyphens to dashes in an existing document. If you like typography, this’ll be right up your alley!

How to Use “Insert Pattern” in TextEdit to Clean Up Text
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How to Use "Insert Pattern" in TextEdit to Clean Up Text

Melissa Holt · 9:15 AM EST, Dec 13th, 2017 · 8 Comments

The Mac’s built-in TextEdit program has a little-known feature that’ll let you find tabs, paragraph breaks, and the like and replace them in text—or find patterns of them, even. It’s a very powerful way to clean up extraneous characters, so come read this Quick Tip!

macOS: Basic Tricks for Fast Text Selection
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macOS: Basic Tricks for Fast Text Selection

Melissa Holt · 8:56 AM EDT, Mar 16th, 2017 · Add Comment

For this Quick Tip, Melissa Holt’s got some tricks for us on how to do text selection within a document, email, or webpage. So if you’re unfamiliar with ways to select text without clicking and dragging, come read this one! It’ll save you tons of time.

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