TextEdit

caoim · #1 February 12th, 2007, 11:29 PM

Hi,
Is there a way to change the background color, or add background images, to templates in TextEdit?
Thanks, caoim

MacFreak · #2 February 13th, 2007, 08:11 PM

Why not use appleworks or MS?

**fryke** · #3 February 13th, 2007, 08:21 PM

Maybe coz AppleWorks is old, won't be updated etc. and MS Office costs a lot of money. Another reason could be that the user _wants_ to use TextEdit. It's a great, small-footprint wordprocessing application. However: Some things it just doesn't seem to do. I don't think it's possible to save these things in templates.

Ferdinand · #4 February 13th, 2007, 11:58 PM

AW won't be upgraded anymore? Ok, the last version was in 2003 (6.2.9 I think??) but that doesnt mean that Apple isn't working on it anymore. Or is iWork now instead of AW? Because actually iWork can do everything AppleWorks can, except for Spreadsheets and Database.

**fryke** · #5 February 14th, 2007, 06:29 AM

I think the plan is to phase out AppleWorks. 2003 is *VERY* old, isn't it. I think it _does_ mean they're not working on it anymore, pretty clearly. Granted: iWork isn't just there yet, with spreadsheets/database missing. But "Numbers"/"Cells" or whatever it's going to be called has been rumoured for the iWork '07 upgrade. The database being the least important part (not for you personally, but statistically speaking), I'd say if iWork gets a spreadsheet app, it's pretty much done.

Ferdinand · #6 February 14th, 2007, 09:39 AM

You're right Fryke. If iWork will get a spreadsheet app its complete. But what will "ersetzen" the Paint & Draw tools in AppleWorks? Word processing and presentations is in iWork. Spreadsheets is coming (but already possible inside Pages) and Database too. But Paint & Draw? Will they "ersetzen" it? Nowadays everyone has Photoshop and much more professional tools, so it might not even be necessary, which will again make it easier for Apple. One could notice Apple was starting to phase it out, since the last one (still think it's 6.2.9) was available for OS 9 and OS X. So it doesnt contain any Mac OS X only things, so it's quite obvious that it contains old technology, as everything it can do in OS X works in OS 9. If they were continuing it, they would have a Mac OS X only version (possibly 6.3.0) which features that only OS X could handle with.

Natobasso · #7 February 14th, 2007, 10:14 AM

Might not be able to use templates, but you can place images and audio into TextEdit, among other things:
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/work/23/

**fryke** · #8 February 14th, 2007, 10:37 AM

OmniGraffle would be a good replacement for the Draw part in AppleWorks, no?