Maria, You want to setup a shortcut in System Preferences for "New TextEdit Containing Selection," which is the easiest way to send text to TextEdit. Alternatively, you can go down to the Services menu and find it there.
Hope this helps, Harry On nov 14, 2012, at 2:12 p.m., Maria & Joe Chapman <bubbygirl1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. i didn't even realize you could send text to text edit. I have always > just opened text edit and copy and pasted. > > how do you do this? > > I will try it and see if I get the same results. > > > God Bless! Maria from australia > Newbie mac user. > bubbygirl1...@gmail.com > will get you fb as well as email & iMessage. > skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl > > > > > > > > > > On 15/11/2012, at 2:58 AM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Listers, >> >> I've come across a very strange behaviour when sending selected text to >> TextEdit. As far as I can recall it has only happened thus far when I was >> trying to select a portion of an e-mail and then executed the command to >> have it send to textedit. >> >> Textedit will open a new window in which I can read the text I have sent to >> it. But what happens next is peculiar. If I try to save this text, and press >> command+s, I get a response from Voiceover "untitled" but I cannot actually >> see the window in which to make the usual save choices. In fact I can't do >> anything at all. When activating window chooser menu to ascertain whether a >> save file dialog is open or not, TextEdit reports no windows at all. In >> order to come out of this problem I have to press escape and again I can see >> and read my text. But now, if I want to close this window or quit TextEdit >> altogether, I can't do it either. TextEdit is stuck and when attempting to >> close it, I get again the same "untitled" response from VoiceOver. At this >> point, I have to force quit textEdit. Another strange thing is that >> normally, if one force quits an application, the force quit window remains >> open in the finder and one has to close it manually. This is not the case >> here. The force quit window is not there. >> >> Has anyone seen this behaviour?Is this a Voiceover problem? I use Macbook >> air with Mountain Lion. >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
