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In TextEdit on OS X 10.7 Lion, I want to remove some custom text styles I created previously (see screenshot). I have tried the “Remove from favorites” button in the “Show Styles > Favourite Styles” dialog, however this only removes them until TextEdit is reopened. How do I delete the styles permanently?
Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and then Sync and all events that should get all your events to show.
Unless you really want a 20 inch wide paper printing you need to adjust your settings.
In TextEdit, click on File than on Page set up.
In the new window click on Paper Size and select proper size, like US letter or other standard formats.
As you know those markers above the scale are the TAB positions (for the tab key on your keyboard.
You can move them around as you see it fit, or remove them. The First and the last one are positioned depending your settings for the page margins. If you right click on one of them you get a choice to choose what they are fore.
The centering will be always for the center of the word it self, thus some might look out of center if they are longer then others.
Now you can use the keyboard TAB key and move a word to the center, or just use the Text Center Icon, but not both at same time
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It looks like you have run into a bug in Lion’s version of TextEdit. For reasons unknown, the designers of TextEdit opted for storing favorite styles in the global preferences file (
~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist) when they introduced the feature. They might have intended to create a user global stored styles system for NSText based rich text editors (not the only oddity of the system – this post has a good write-up of TextEdit’s style implementation). This has worked up to and including OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.In OS X 10.7 Lion however, TextEdit has been sandboxed (sandboxing means, in layman’s terms: the operating system only grants an application discrete rights to access the file system, network, OS services etc. as defined by the app – so called entitlements. Anything a sandboxed application tries beyond that what is covered by its entitlements will be denied and logged by the sandbox daemon
sandbox). A look at the log, where you will find an entry similar to this oneeach time you try to store a new favorite style shows that writing to
.GlobalPreferencesis not among TextEdit’s entitlements. The result: Lion’s TextEdit can neither store new favorite styles*, nor delete ones written ether by previous versions of TextEdit (your case).To get rid of the old styles, you need to remove the
NSFavoriteStyleskey from the global preferences list. If you have Xcode installed, invokingwill open the file in Xcode’s plist Editor, where you can remove / modify it manually. If you don’t,
will get rid of all stored (“favorite”) styles.
* it might look like it does, as these are stored in memory while TextEdit runs, and with Lion’s revamped process management, it is difficult to tell when textEdit really quits. Still, once it does, the favorite styles disappear.
ADDENDUM: Reported as a bug to Apple (OpenRadar rdar://10385163).
According to Apple Developer Relations, this bug has been quashed as of OS X 10.8