Hello, Text Edit is more than just a text editor. It's less like Notepad and more like WordPad. It has spellcheck, different fonts, paragraph alignment, and more. It can save files as Word DOCs, RTFs, TXT, and HTML. It's pretty powerful for being "just a text editor". That being said - I'd recommend AbiWord if you are looking for something more powerful than Text Edit and OpenOffice.org isn't working for you. AbiWord can be download from http://www.abiword.com/
HTH On 5/16/06, Andrew Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Open Office.org is available for the intel macs -- text edit is just that, a text editor -- it was never intended to be a word processor -- Take a look in your Applications Folder, then in the iwork folder -- there is a word processor in there called Pages -- if you enjoy the whole Apple OSX interface, you will like Pages, if not it will drive you nuts! Good luck Andy Spitfire Computer Services 441 Beaver Street Suite 202 Sewickley, PA 15143 Phone (412) 749-0162 Fax: (412) 749-0203 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.spitcomp.com On May 15, 2006, at 10:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The system requirements for OpenOffice 2.0 on Mac OS X include > > Power Mac G3 400 MHz or higher > > However, my just-acquired iMac 17 has > > 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor > > I have a sneaking suspicion this means I can't (yet) get open > office. Am I (I hope) wrong? If I'm right, any idea how long > until a version good for me will be available? > > The TextEdit furnished with the Mac, at least on my initial trial, > seems to me to be a dreadful product. I'd much prefer to be using > Writer. > > Thanks, > > Virgil E. Vickers > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
-- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ http://www.chadwsmith.com/ Got an Intel Mac Mini? Want one? http://minimacs.freepay.com/?r=29227644
