![apple textedit on iphone apple textedit on iphone](https://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/view-which-apps-have-documents-in-icloud-ios.jpg)
If you’d prefer the more careful way, you could click “Replace” instead of “All.” That’ll step through every found item and fix them one by one.įinally, an especially neat feature of this is that you can use it to find patterns of characters instead of one at a time. …I can leave the “Replace” field (outlined in green above) blank, which is the equivalent of saying “find all the tabs, and then replace them with nothing.” When I do that and click the “All” button, everything gets fixed! Check it out: To strip out those awful tabs shown in my first screenshot above, I’ll just pick “Tab” from this menu, and TextEdit will search the document for that. Here’s what you’ll see afterward:Īh, I love that so much. But the highlighted option-“Insert Pattern”-is what I’m gonna talk about for this tip, so pick that. See that magnifying glass with the arrow I’ve called out? If you click that, you’ll get a magical little drop-down menu:įrom that, you could turn on “Ignore Case,” which’ll mean that TextEdit will look for both “Apple” and “apple” at the same time, or you could choose to look for items starting with your search term, for example.
![apple textedit on iphone apple textedit on iphone](http://isource.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ios-8.png)
Then you’ll see the aforementioned toolbar appear, like so: You’d think I’d get better at writing up stuff for my screenshots.Īnyhow, once your own file is ready for cleanup, you can press Command-F to open the “Find” toolbar, or you could instead choose Edit > Find > Find from the menu bar. I’ve been working for TMO for like 87 years now.