TextEdit with selected text blocks in differing background colors So how then did I actually do that? With a little help from Mac OS X Hints contributors Michel Scriban and toc-rox, that’s how.

TextEdit is a nice, lightweight text-editor. But in one sense, it's too light: It doesn't do word counts. One MacOSXHints.com reader has a solution.

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 ...

Prevent automatic list creation in TextEdit TextEdit's auto-formatting of lists can be a burden. Here is how to turn it off.