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If you aren't the best typist, but you get close enough for OS X to detect when you have made an error, you can use this to your advantage. I just continue to type, errors and all, and then edit the errors when I am done typing my document.

Your misspelled words will have the red squiggly lines under them. To correct then, simply right click on the word (or control click) and then select the correct word or spelling. I find it speeds up my typing and writing a lot, since I don't have to go back and correct each word and lose my train of thought.

Did you know with Mac OS X tiger, you can take some formatted text in a Cocoa application, like TextEdit, and copy the formatting attributes from one section of a document to another?

It's very useful if you need to copy the formatting quickly.

Let's get to it:

1. First, open a Cocoa based application with some text that you want to edit.

2. Select the text with the attributes you want to copy. READ MORE »

Have you ever been editing some text and needed to select different sections of it at the same time?

Many people know how to SELECT ALL or Highlight one sentence or paragraph of contiguous text. Did you know that in many Cocoa based Mac OS X programs you can select different sections of text at the same time.

Here is how to do it:

Open up a document that you want to edit. I am using TextEdit in this example.

Click and Drag over the first portion of text to select it. Then then hold down the Command key and then select the next portion you want to select. READ MORE »