If you don’t want to run NotePad on your Mac however, here we’ve looked at the best NotePad for Mac alternatives. Parallels also works on the latest Apple Silicon M1 and M2 chip Macs as well. The best way to run Windows on a Mac is using Parallels which allows you to run macOS and Windows side-by-side so you can switch between then whenever you want. Perhaps I’ve missed something (it’s been a tough old day!) but I felt I should say something in case anyone else encounters the same thing.īut none of that affects my level of gratitude – I’m genuinely very thankful to you for illuminating how easily my issue could be solved by changing an obscure application preference. Firstly, although Windows NotePad doesn’t exist for Mac, you can install NotePad on a Mac by running Windows on a Mac. The screen cap provided shows the “Fornat> Use the Format menu to choose settings for an open document” is already toggled from “Rich text” to “Plain text” but this wasn’t the case in my “TextEdit> Preferences” until I amended it when my save dialog remained unchanged from beforehand. I’ve only just bought my first MacBook so in some ways I’m new to this (despite having first used a Mac decades ago) hence I’m not sure whether another step was necessary because of a change in OS or a difference between Mac and MacBook – or maybe this page hasn’t displayed correctly for me and I’ve not seen allot step 1 in your above method. Thanks for putting this online, Akshay, I’d never have worked it out independently.

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