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If the text in a printed document is too small

By default, when you print a document, TextEdit places line breaks at the same places they appear on the screen. If the lines are too long for the paper you’re printing on, TextEdit reduces the size of the font until the lines fit. If the document window is very wide, TextEdit must reduce the font size quite a bit to make the text fit.

You can have TextEdit fit the text to the document margins, instead of to the window, so that the lines of text will remain at a fixed width and the font size in the printed document will match the font size on the screen.

To use the same font size in printed and onscreen documents:

Choose Format > “Wrap to Page.”

A rectangle shows the margins of the document in the window.

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printing

formatting text