Video Tutorials, News and Insights for Apple Users

If you need to create printable forms that have blank spaces, you should use tab stops instead of underscore characters. Using tab stops allows you to line up blank spaces perfectly, making your forms look more professional. (Read More, 9 Replies)

Learn how to select text by character, word, line or paragraph. You can use the Option or Command keys as modifiers in conjunction with the arrow keys. You can also use the mouse to select by character, word, or paragraph with the right number of clicks. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary [...] (Read More, 2 Replies)

You can use the application Text Expander and other programs like it. You assign shortcuts to longer pieces of text, so that when you type a few characters, those characters are replaced with the longer piece of text. It works in any Mac program. ; Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi. This is Gary with [...] (Read More, No Replies)

Before you buy a professional word processor consider using TextEdit, a program that comes with your Mac and can handle most non-professional word processing needs. You can format and style text, add images, lists and tables, and even open Word docs. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is gary with MacMost Now, on todays [...] (Read More, 9 Replies)

Text Clippings allow you to save pieces of text as small files in the Finder and drag them into text documents and fields. You can create them by dragging text from an application to the Finder. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now. In today's episode let's take a look [...] (Read More, 3 Replies)

Learn about the new text substitution feature in Snow Leopard that lets you create your own text shortcuts so you can quickly type commonly used phrases or hard-to-type characters. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Gary Rosenzweig: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode let's take a look at the new text substitution [...] (Read More, 10 Replies)

There are four text editors you can use from the Terminal: Pico, Nano, Vi and Emacs. Each can be used to quickly edit text files. Learn how to access them and what makes them different. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now. Today’s episode let’s take a look at some [...] (Read More, 6 Replies)

TextEdit is one of the most underrated pieces of software that comes with your Mac. Learn how to use it to create rich text tables and lists. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Today let's look at how to create tables using only TextEdit. So I've kind of adopted [...] (Read More, 7 Replies)

How to use the built-in Mac OS X spell check in many applications like TextEdit, Mail and Safari. You can make it learn new words and reset your custom dictionary. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now. Today lets take a look at how we can use the almost ubiquitous [...] (Read More, 26 Replies)