I'm not sure what's happening, but here's a couple of things to look out for with TextEdit:
It has two modes. It either edits plain text or it edits rich text. In plain text, you don't have much control over the appearance of the printout, but it's great for writing and editing programming code. The rich text mode allows you to change the fonts, margins, etc.
You'll know if you're in rich text mode if you see a toolbar at the top of your window with a tab ruler, margin adjustments, and various menus and buttons for styles, alignment, spacing, etc. If you don't see this toolbar, go the the 'Format' menu and switch it to 'Make Rich Text'.
Now you should be able to adjust the margins, fonts, type sizes, etc.
charlie
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Top 5 best text editors for Windows 10 – Ultimate List Ujjwal Kumar Apps, Tech, Windows 10 1 Comment Windows 10 comes with some really great features and new OS additions like a 3D builder that lets you design 3D models and many other things. Press the keyboard shortcut for starting dictation, or choose Edit > Start Dictation. The default shortcut is Fn Fn (press the Fn key twice). When your Mac is listening, it displays a microphone to the left or right of the page, aligned with the insertion point. Rich Text and Text Edit I have recently bought Office for Mac 2011 for my new iMac computer and I find now that when I save a document in 'rich text' before sending it on to other non-Apple computers, that it now saves the document in Text Edit.
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