Go to Applications\Utilities folder and launch it from there. TextEdit Review How to open TextEdit on Mac To switch to Notepad mode go to the menu and click Make Plain Text from View menu or use Shift-Command-T key combination. It is roughly equivalent to Microsoft’s WordPad but can work as Notepad as well. Naturally, when I started working more in macOS one of my first questions was is Notepad available for Mac? All Macs have a basic built-in text editor called TextEdit. First I copy the text to Notepad to make sure that all formatting is removed and then copy to my text editor. Personally, I use Notepad mostly for 2 reasons: The biggest advantage of Notepad over other more sophisticated editors is that it saves files in plain text, unlike others editors that might add special formatting text which makes it a perfect tool for editing HTML/CSS and an average tool for editing code (PHP, Java, C#, etc). It still exists, but one could wonder why would anyone still use such basic editor when there are thousands of text editors available.
It was first released in 1983 as part of the DOS system. Notepad program is one of the oldest and simplest text editors in the world.
