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If your text formatting disappears

If you suddenly lost all text formatting in a TextEdit document, you may have accidentally converted your file from rich text to plain text format. Plain text documents cannot be formatted.

Try the following solutions:

  • To restore your document’s formatting, but lose any changes you’ve made since you last saved the document, choose File > “Revert to Saved.”

  • To keep any changes you’ve made since you last saved your document, choose Format > Make Rich Text.

    You can now format your document again, but you’ll have to reapply the formatting you lost.

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