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How to “Save As” a document in macOS? I can only “Save” the document

TextEdit has both Duplicate & Save As… functionality. Both will do approximately the same thing, ie offer you the opportunity to save a new file with a new name. The difference is that Save As… ...
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How to add extra text encodings to TextEdit on Mac OS X?

Windows-1252 is one of the most common encodings out there. But it goes under different names at times such as CP-1252 and Windows Latin 1. Looking at the “Plain Text Encoding” options when saving a ...
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MacOS automatically saves changes when closing TextEdit

In MacOS 10.13, there's a setting in System Preferences->General called "Ask to keep changes when saving documents". It should be checked if you want to be prompted. a Modern MacOS just keeps the ...
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Mac TextEdit Settings

In Terminal, you could try the following commands according to whether you think they pertain to your needs. Best to do it when TextEdit isn’t running. defaults write com.apple.TextEdit ...
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How to disable line wrap in TextEdit

The following works to make lines wrap to a very large number of characters, similar to the way it is done in Notepad (there text wraps to 1024 characters): Set text size to 2 (setting size to 1 ...
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How to disable line wrap in TextEdit

There's actually a weird bug/behavior in TextEdit on Mac which frustrates me to no end! If you zoom in or out in TextEdit, it breaks the word-wrapping feature, dead. In other words, to get the ...
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