Aug 04, '05 09:27:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
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.
