- NeoOffice 3.1.1 [Mac OS X] NeoOffice based its applications on the Open Office package, creating a Mac OS X specific suite of tools for document editing. All of the toolbars have been reformatted for the Mac OS X, the program supports magnify and swipe gestures on the trackpad, and has a media browser for your use.
- The Built In Text Editors On Windows And Macs. VaShaun Jones Aug 13, 2013. Although, RTF documents can usually be opened in most applications that are considered document editors on Windows and the Mac. There are even a few document editors on iOS that can handle RTF documents.
Mac Os Text Editor
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. 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. So get your writing hats on and lets talk some text editing.
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WordPad On Windows
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. One often overlooked yet powerful document editor for Windows is WordPad. Yes, I can here you all now “what about Microsoft Word?” Take my word for it, we will cover MS Word in the future. I want to introduce you to WordPad for a specific reason though. It is free and comes already installed on your Windows machine. 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.
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. As expected, upon opening WordPad, you are presented with a blank document where you can begin typing. Pressing the Alt Key opens a ribbon, much like what you would see in many other Windows applications. The primary sections in this ribbon are:
The Home Tab, a View Tab, Help and an Application Menu.
The Home Tab, a View Tab, Help and an Application Menu.
Mac Snow Leopard makes it easy for you to create and edit your text files, such as word-processing files. Text files let you create and format documents that include text and photos and even embed music and video files for Web pages you build.
We will start with the Home Tab. Here you have such functions as Cut, Copy, Select All, and a few more editing options. You also have some Insert options like Date, Time and so on. To navigate to the different functions in this tab, press the Down Arrow to enter the tab then use the Left or Right Arrows to move through the options. You will also find Formatting options which contain options for setting the Font size and style, line spacing and justification, and a host of other options.
Next is the View Tab which allows for controlling Page Zoom, Word Wrap options and whether or not to display the toolbar on screen. The Help button is a shortcut to the Windows Help documentation.
Then there is the Application menu. This is a menu, not a ribbon tab, so you must press Space to open it and reveal the options there. These options include, Open New Document, Open Existing Document, Save, Save As, and options for printing.
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I will leave the typing up to you, but you will want to save your work. Pressing Control+S will open the Save dialogue where you can name your document, select where to save it and select the file type. The default file type for WordPad is “Rich Text Format” or imply RTF. You also have options for Plain Text, .TXT, MS DOS text, and Unicode text. If you have applied any formatting, like page justification, a different font style, or bold and highlighting, you may want to stick with the RTF format. RTF usually maintains all formatting applied during editing. Plain text however, may lose some of this formatting. WordPad prompts you with a helpful dialogue if you choose plain text, alerting you to this fact.
I usually go with the plain text option which allows for more cross-platform compatibility. Although, RTF documents can usually be opened in most applications that are considered document editors on Windows and the Mac. There are even a few document editors on iOS that can handle RTF documents.
Now that you know about this hidden gem for writing documents on Windows, Scott will tell you about the option found on the Mac.
Text Edit On Mac
Text Edit is the built in text editor on the Mac. It is a very capable word processing application and for most people it will be the only word processor that you will need.
With Text Edit you can open documents in Rich Text Format(RTF), Plain Text formatted documents and even the ever popular Microsoft Word format. You read that right. You can indeed open and read Word documents, but you cannot edit the document in the Word format. In order to create and edit Word documents on the Mac you must purchase either MS Office for Mac which is not accessible to the blind user, or Apple’s Pages which is accessible. There are other text editing applications on the Mac platform that can read and write in the Word format but those are beyond the scope of this article. How do i get to html editor for mac mail to create signature.
To work on a document in Text Edit you first need to open the program. 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.
When you open Text Edit depending on your settings Text Edit may open with the last document that you were working with opened. You can change this behavior by going to System Preferences and choosing iCloud and unchecking Documents and Data. When you do this Text Edit will now open with a blank document. It is important to note that if you do this that you will no longer get document synching via iCloud, so if you like to have your documents appear on both your Mac and your iOS device then you will need to leave this setting enabled.
Once you have Text Edit opened you can begin typing out your document. As you type if you misspell a word your Mac will attempt to auto correct. You can identify an error because you will hear a bubble sound when your Mac offers some suggestions. To use one of the corrections just press the down arrow and you will hear VO read the first suggestion. VO will also spell out this suggestion. Once you hear the word that you wish to use press the Enter key to accept it.
There are several keyboard commands available in Text Edit and the best way to discover these is to review all of your menus in the program. To do this just press VO+M. This will take you to the Menu Bar. This is a horizontal menu that goes across
the top of your screen.
the top of your screen.
These are the menu items in Text Edit.
Apple Menu: This is always the first menu item on the Mac.
Apple Menu: This is always the first menu item on the Mac.
Text Edit: These are application specific settings such as Preferences and the About Text Edit information.
File Menu: These are options such as New, Open, Save, Duplicate Document along with some others.
Edit Menu: These are options such as Undo, Paste, Copy, Cut and the like.
Format Menu: In this option you have options like Text,Font, make Rich Text if the document that you are viewing is a different format and a few others.
View Menu: There are only 3 options in this one. They are Actual Size, Zoom In, and Zoom Out.
The last two items are Window, and Help. In the Windows item you have options like Minimize and Zoom, and in the Help Menu you have the Text edit Help documentation.
After you have finished writing your document you need to save it. To do this you will press Command+S. You will notice that this is almost the same keystroke as in Windows. On a Windows machine you press Control+S to save. This similarity will continue with other word processing commands on the Mac. To Copy on the Mac you press Command+c and on Windows you press Control+C. To Cut the text on a Mac you press Command+X, and on Windows you press Control+X. On the Mac to Paste you press Command+V, and on Windows you press Control+V, and final on the Mac to Select All you press Command+A, and on Windows you press Control+A
As you can see there are a lot of similarities between the two platforms in this regard. The only real difference is that in the Mac instead of using the Control key for these commands you use the Command key.
I truely hope that this introduction to text editing on the Windows and Mac platforms has been enlightening for you. If you like reading these weekly posts that Damashe and I are doing then you may also enjoy reading our Thursday Tips and Tricks post that our team writes up each week. To make sure that you never miss a post subscribe to the Delivering Access blog by eamil.
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PDF Editor is an innovative tool for you to edit, convert, and annotate PDF files in Mac OS X system. It allows you to directly edit a PDF file or reuse a PDF by converting PDF to Microsoft Word for more extensive editing, preserving document formatting, fonts, and embedded images. PDF Editor is a smart choice for those looking to save hundreds of dollars on a PDF editor compared with Acrobat.
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Key Features:
1. Full editing
• Support editing encrypted PDF files
• Directly edit PDF documents, including adding, deleting, moving, or modifying text. When editing PDF text, the auto-matching system will detect the font in the text block and match the newly added text with it automatically.
2. Mark up and annotate
• The annotation, markup, and freehand drawing tools on the toolbar make it quite easy to draw attention to PDF text with highlight, underline, strikethrough, sticky note, text boxes, rectangles, arrow, line, oval, clouds, customizable colors, line weights etc.
3. Insert, split and merge PDF files
•You are capable of managing PDF files effortlessly. Just go to the Document menu to insert, extract and delete PDF page, split a large PDF into small ones and merge multiple PDF files into a large one. Html editor for mac high sierra like micrososft expression 4.
4. Convert a PDF to Word
• Help you to convert PDF to a fully editable MS Word document, maintaining the original document layout, fonts, and embedded images.
• Convert encrypted PDFs while removing printing and copying restrictions. Password protected documents require entering password before modifications can be done
5. Sign PDF with Digital Signatures
• Scan your handwritten signature into an image and import it as a stamp you can apply to any electronic PDF file
• Predefined and custom stamp types let users give and share feedback more easily: “Reviewed”, “Approved”, “Confidential”, and more.
6. Fill out forms
• Fill out and Customize PDF forms
• Fill out PDF dynamic forms hassle free
• Customize PDF forms from templates and edit PDF forms
• Add or remove bookmarks in PDF.
***** Note: This version doesn't support OCR scanned document. If you need to edit OCR scanned PDF file, please refer to Wondershare PDFelement, which is on sale now.
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***** Need additional options for PDF conversion & editing? Other Wondershare PDF tools are available on the Mac App Store:
• PDF Editor Pro-Besides all the features of the PDF Editor, what’s more, it can edit scanned PDF files with leading-edge OCR, and convert PDF to multiple formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Plain Text, EPUB eBook and HTML pages. Now it's on sale.
•PDF Converter - Easily convert PDF documents into fully editable versions of the original Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint), EPUB, HTML, RTF, Text and Images with high quality, preserving all formatting, fonts, and embedded images.
•PDF Converter Pro-Includes all the features of PDF Converter, also it can convert PDF to text-based documents with OCR .
• MePub-A simple yet powerful EPUB eBook creator for you to create your own EPUB eBooks on your own. Now it's on sale.
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*****Need help with this product or want to tell us what you think of our products? Please contact us and you will receive a reply within 24 hours. Please put 'Mac App Store' in your subject to get your request prioritized.
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[email protected]
*****We'd appreciate it if you could please write a quick review of this app.
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PDF Editor is an innovative tool for you to edit, convert, and annotate PDF files in Mac OS X system. It allows you to directly edit a PDF file or reuse a PDF by converting PDF to Microsoft Word for more extensive editing, preserving document formatting, fonts, and embedded images. PDF Editor is a smart choice for those looking to save hundreds of dollars on a PDF editor compared with Acrobat.
What's New in 3.7.10:
Fix the crop freeze issue .
What's New in 3.7.10:
Fix the crop freeze issue .
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Waste of my money too
I bought this to convert PDFs to Word or Pages documents. Tried word first. WOuld not let me edit the document in the fashion I would normally do in word. Supposed fillable fields were not and placing text in the supposed fillable fields was not doable.
Developer Response,
Dear customer, apologize for the inconvenience caused to you. May I ask if your PDF files are scanned or images? PDF Editor only support converting searchable PDFs to editable word. Converting scanned or images PDFs to editable Word requires OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which is only available in PDF Editor Pro or PDFelement 6. More help: [email protected]
Good editor
I use it all the time, works well for editing, extracting and combining pdf documents. I am a little concerned that I am now getting a warning that it isn't optomized for my Mac, but works good so far. :)
Ugh
I forgot I had a PDF convertor and in a panic purchased this. Should have looked at the comments first. It’s not at all user friendly and it’s functionality leave a lot to be desired. Waste of my money
Developer Response,
Dear Customer, apologize for the unfriendly user experience. What functions are you looking for? Our new product PDFelement 6 which can be searched on Mac App Store is our new product which is much easier to use.
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