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Sgtarky

macrumors regular
Original poster
Dec 24, 2011
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Benton, Arkansas
here is what my textedit files are looking like.
r201l5.png
 
There is a Format option Rich text vs plain text. Is it set to rich text?
 
Uncheck the second tick box in this TextEdit Preferences window.
(not the highlighted one)

"Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text".

 
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