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This article is about a specific software title. For a Mac OS API for text editor programming, see TextEdit (API). For text editors in general, see Text editor.

TextEdit

TextEdit document.
Developed by	Apple Computer
Latest release	1.5 (244) / October 26, 2007
OS	Mac OS X
Genre	Text editor, word processor
License	Bundled with Mac OS X
Website	http://www.apple.com/macosx/

TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT\'s NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple Inc.\'s acquisition of NeXT and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-compatible operating systems such as Linux.Backbone—A GNUstep based desktop environment. Retrieved on 2007-09-04. It is powered by Apple Advanced Typography and has advanced typography features not found in even high-end word processors such as Microsoft Word. Advanced Typography with TextEdit in Mac OS X

It replaces the text editor of previous Macintosh operating systems, SimpleText. TextEdit reads and writes documents in Rich Text Format, Rich Text Format Directory and plain text files, Microsoft Word document format and HTML, and can open (but not save) old SimpleText files. It also has access to the operating system\'s built-in spell-checking service. The version included in Mac OS X v10.3 added the ability to read and write documents in Word format, and the version in Mac OS X v10.4 the ability to read and write Word XML documents. The version included in Mac OS X v10.5 includes OpenDocument Text read and write support.

Source code

Apple distributes TextEdit\'s source code as part of the documentation of its integrated development environment (IDE) Xcode. On the internet, the source code to a version of TextEdit enhanced to demonstrate the calling of Quartz Composer compositions from the Cocoa API can be found at Apple\'s developer website.