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Make a template in TextEdit to set zoom preference Apps
If you open up TextEdit, you can go to Format and toggle between Wrap to Window and Wrap to Page. If you Wrap to Window, the text will just wrap around based on the window size. This makes it a little harder to print documents since the margin is based on the window size.

If you Wrap to Page, TextEdit will put a rectangular frame inside the Window. The Frame serves as the page size. The text will now wrap around the page instead of the window. There is a small pop up button in the lower right hand corner of the window that you can click on to change the zoom factor. It is currently set to 100% by default, but once you open the document, you can change the zoom anywhere from 10% to 1600%. Whenever you open a new document with wrap to page, it will reopen the new document with a zoom of 100%. So if you like your zoom to be 50% for example for a new document, how do you do it? The answer is simple.

Create a template by first opening up a new document and change the format to wrap to page. Second, change the zoom to 50% or whatever you like. Third, make the document rich text by using shift +command+T or clicking on "Make Rich Text" under Format. Forth, save the document with a name like "Template_50"

Now when you want to create a new document with a view of 50%, just open Template_50. It will automatically be wrap to page and the view will be 50%. Once the new document is opened, you can always change it back to plain text or change the zoom just like any TextEdit document. So even though there isn't an easy way to change the zoom preferences in the menu items, you can use a template to open the document the way you want.
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Make a template in TextEdit to set zoom preference
Authored by: qwerty denzel on Aug 05, '05 01:52:34AM

I think you'll find that the default format of a new document is rich text, so for most users there is no reason to change to it when making the template.



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Make a template in TextEdit to set zoom preference
Authored by: LC on Aug 05, '05 12:23:59PM

In TextEdit's Preferences dialog, I see the first two preference questions (in the "New Document Attributes" section) are Rich/Plain text choice, and "Wrap to Page" (on or off). The author of this hint would want those set to Rich and Wrap2Page; I'm seeing this in TextEdit 1.3, in OS X 10.3.9; Larry.



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Make a template in TextEdit to set zoom preference
Authored by: sjk on Aug 05, '05 06:28:08PM

Darn, I thought this tip was going to tell me how to get Window->Zoom (click-green) in Tiger's TextEdit to behave like it did in Panther. :-)

TextEdit's previous "zoom-to-fit" resizing was much more useful for me than the current "zoom-to-fill-screen". Anyone know if there's a way to do that now?



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Make a template in TextEdit to set zoom preference
Authored by: Ross L on Aug 07, '05 12:22:34PM

I'm trying this on 10.4.2, and it seems to zoom to page as you said.

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