I just tried this and the default text size and typeface for native OS X applications such as TextEdit can be set using the freeware utility TinkerTool. Note that will change the typeface and size for ALL OS X native applications and setting the type size too big can cause text overflow problems with some applications and circumstances. Applications that have their own typeface and font size settings will override the universal setting.

As far as changing the view options for TextEdit I think you are out of luck. I even tried creating an Automator workflow and an Apple Script to do that and AFICT the view setting in TextEdit is not scriptable. frown I don't pretend to be an AppleScript expert so someone else may come up with the answer. I suspect the initial View settings are hard-coded in TextEdit.


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