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hi this is gary with macmost now on today's episode let's take a closer look at TextEdit and how you can use it as your main word processor so a lot of people dismiss the program TextEdit that comes with your Mac as a very simple text editor they remember programs like simple text on the Mac or notepad on Windows and indeed TextEdit can do simple text editing but it's much more powerful than that and if you don't need a professional word processor like Word or pages it may fill all your word processing needs so when you first start TextEdit you may get a screen that looks like this and it doesn't look too much like a complex word processor matter of fact it may look even worse it may look like this just plain text see TextEdit has two modes you change between the modes by going to format and either make rich text or make plain text now of course we want to be in the rich text mode to set ourselves up for some real word processing in addition to that you also want to go and set up wrap