Prepend enclosing list marker: If you’re going to create sublists, like an outline, marking this box will add the enclosing list marker to the sublist.įor example, say you use capital letters as list markers (A, B, C). Starting number: For numbered lists, you can choose the number to start with. Suffix: Select a character as the suffix for the list marker. You have several options for both bulleted and numbered lists. Prefix: Select a character as a prefix for before the list marker.īullet or Number: Choose the list marker style. When the formatting box opens, you can configure your list with some flexible options. If you do the latter, select the text first, and then click Format > List to convert your text into a list. You can do this before you create the list or after you already have text.
To insert a list in TextEdit, click Format > List from the menu bar. To delete a table in TextEdit, drag through to select the entire table and click Delete. To split merged cells, follow the same steps and click the Split Cells button. To merge cells, select them in the table, open the formatting window (Format > Table) and click Merge Cells. To adjust the width of a column or height of a row, put your cursor over the border, and when the two-sided arrow appears, just drag. This lets you add or remove rows or columns and change any of the cell settings. You can adjust the text alignment within the cell both vertically and horizontally, choose a cell border and color, and use a cell background and color.Īfter you create your table, you can go back and edit it using the menu once again. You also have settings for the selected cell. You can select the number of rows and columns for the table and use a nested table if you like. The table formatting window will pop open for you to configure your table settings. To insert a table in TextEdit, click Format > Table from the menu bar. Keep in mind that this will affect text you already have in the document. With your document open in TextEdit, click Format > Make Rich Text from the menu bar.
You can simply switch the document you’re working on to rich text. Luckily, you don’t have to change your default settings for this. If you’ve adjusted your TextEdit Preferences to use rich text for all of your new documents, then you can skip down to creating the table or list.īut if your default is plain text, you’ll need to switch it to rich text. Here’s how to work with tables and lists in TextEdit on your Mac. Using rich text in TextEdit, inserting tables and lists is simple, plus you have flexible options. And it’s handy if you want to create a table for an email or list in outline format. TextEdit on Mac is a nice and easy tool for creating plain or rich text documents.
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