TextEdit with selected text blocks in differing background colors So how then did I actually do that? With a little help from Mac OS X Hints contributors Michel Scriban and toc-rox, that’s how.

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For example, if you edit your TextEdit PLIST file using this method (which I did to test this), your menu bar and Dock will automatically hide when TextEdit is the active application.