#Wordservice how to#
#Wordservice pdf#
#Wordservice Pc#
#Wordservice series#
#Wordservice free#

There were some experimental functions that are no longer present, and some notes about differences for French and German quote treatment that are now handled in the present versions, but you can read the old ReadMe files for the descriptive text.) The old versions of WordService (that I used back in 2008, before Snow Leopard) used to come with a ReadMe.rtf file so if you do a web search for 'WordService ReadMe.rtf' you will likely find one of the old files that described these features a bit more fully (e.g., it will tell you that for Macintosh line endings, it converts all line breaks to 'Carriage Return', for Linux, it uses 'Line Feed', and for Windows it converts line breaks to 'Carriage Return'+'Line Feed'), and the format will be a bit more readable.

#Wordservice pdf#

By downloading from the Devon Technologies web site you'll have access to a PDF document that gives brief help information.

#Wordservice how to#

It is also possible to install WordService from the Mac App Store, but I suspect this would be confusing to anyone who does not already know about how to use the Services menu. So if you have been typing away with your Caplock key on, you can select 'WordService: Lowercase' and optionally also use 'WordService: Initial Caps of Sentences'.

#Wordservice series#

Other things WordService can do include replacing tabs with blank spaces, or vice-versa, sort a selected series of lines in ascending or descending order (for example, if you want to alphabetize a series of included entries), trim lines of extra blank spaces, remove quotation marks, capitalize the beginnings of all words in the selection, or force them to be lowercase.

#Wordservice Pc#

Also, WordService works for all Cocoa applications on the Mac, so you can use it other places - for example, to reformat your mail messages by removing extra spaces and lines that arise from your editing, or to fix the titles of accented songs and albums that you imported from your PC collections into iTunes, etc. Also, if you're not used to working with Services menu options, keep in mind that you won't see a list of services displayed unless you select some text for the service to operate on. So, the way that I would deal with Maldalain's issue of having the smart quotes in TextEdit show up as O grave in Notepad is to leave all of this as smart quotes, but after selecting all with command-a, vo m to the menu bar, right arrow to TextEdit and then navigate down to the services submenu where I would select 'WordService: Mac- to Windows Encoding'.Īgain, these options normally don't have shortcuts assigned to them, so if you have enabled these options and you want to avoid navigating to the Services submenu to change over to Windows character encoding, you'll have to assign your own shortcuts. However, you can also do this all with WordService options to either switch between smart quotes and straight quotes (enable the WordService options for 'Smart Quotes' and 'Straight Quotes') or by not even bothering to switch off smart quotes, but simply by enabling the 'Mac- to Windows-Encoding' and/or 'Windows- to Mac-Encoding' WordService options. Splyt is correct that you can change your TextEdit preferences so that by default you don't use smart quotes.

There are other options for 'Macintosh line endings' and 'Unix line endings' that you can also activate. If I did this frequently, I would assign a shortcut that did not conflict with any other shortcuts I used, and simply do Command-a to select and then give the shortcut to convert all the line endings in my selection to Windows line endings. You can choose which of the 34 service menu options are enabled under the Services Shortcuts table (under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts with 'Services' selected under the Shortcut categories, and by checking or unchecking the various options prefaced by 'WordService:' in the Services shortcuts table you can also optionally assign your own shortcut to these combinations).Īssuming that I wanted to convert an entire plain text file in TextEdit to the appropriate line endings for reading in Notepad under Windows, and I had the 'WordService: Windows Line Endings' option enabled, from TextEdit I would select all text with Command-a, vo m to the menu bar, right arrow to TextEdit, and move down to the Services submenu where I would select 'WordService:Windows line endings'.

#Wordservice free#

I think that most of the issues mentioned in this thread, including the original poster's problem that arises because Windows, Unix, and Macs all use different conventions for end-of-line characters in plain text files, may be most easily solved by downloading the free WordService package from this site: