TextEdit demonstrates Apple's new automatic file saving and versions technologies in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which replaces the app's simple autosave feature (previously set to save a backup copy ...

Use TextEdit’s Find function. This workaround is not exact, and again you can only use it to do a word count of the entire document, but at least it’s something you do in TextEdit itself.

In windows you can load a python script with the python c script\file.py <BR><BR>in mac... what is it? I can't figure this out, It seems so simple that people don't bother explaining how to do it ...

More Mac 101, our series of tips and tricks for novice Mac users. For those with modest text-editing needs, Apple's TextEdit is a great choice. Did you know that it's got an autocomplete option?