But you can change that using that same TextEdit trick. Now it looks like you only have this one option, a little dash here for lists. Shift Tab outdents it back to the regular level. If I put my cursor in a line and hit Tab it indents it one more. So now when I put my cursor at the end and hit Return you can see it continues the list. Now to convert that to an actual list I would select it and do Option and then hit the Tab key. Let's create a new note here and let's make a list in it. So as soon as you have one highlighted you can highlight another. Then choose Font, Paste Style or Option Command V. But you could select this text here and then choose Font, Copy Style or Option Command C and then choose something else. Now you may think that's a little hard to do every time you want to highlight. You could see when you paste it pastes the highlight as well. Now select the text again, copy it, and paste it back in. So let's make it an orange highlight here. Then select it and here you can use this control to set the highlights.

Now copy this text here and paste it into your Rich Text document in TextEdit. If it says make Plain Text that means it's already in Rich Text mode. You want to make sure it's set to Rich Text so go to Format and select Make Rich Text. Then you want to create a new TextEdit document. What you want to do is you want to open TextEdit. There's no way to do that in here and there's no way to do that here with Fonts. For instance text color and some other items aren't. So we do a new Note and we could see it's using the default font and the default color. Now we go to Window and select Use As Default.

Let's go and make this larger and let's say make it a light version of that text. So, for instance, let's go to Show Fonts here. Just go ahead in the note here and change things about the font. If you want to change the default you can. When you create a new note it's going to create it using the color and also the font styling that's the default. So you can add cool little graphics inside of your notes just using the thousands of different emojis and symbols. Of course you can make that a larger font size as well using the font controls here or you can use it here. So add the character that you want and then it adds it in there. You can use the Search field here at the top to search for something. You can use this to access not only emoji but all sorts of special characters. So hold Control Command Space and this brings up the Emoji Viewer. Now another thing people forget about in all sorts of situations is using emoji. Just another way to make your text standout. So I can add a little more shadow and adjust it. It's kind of subtle but you can make it standout more using these controls here. So I can select some text and then click here and it will add a Shadow underneath the text. Now another thing you can do is add Shadows. You can see here I can even add a different color strikethrough than the underline. Add the strikethrough and then add the color. You can do the same thing with a strikethrough. But if I go to Color it will bring up the Color Controls and I can change the color to something else using anyone of the things in the Color Picker. So here I've got a black underline under black text. Now you can also color the underline in strikethrough. So if you want to distinguish between something that's underlined singly or doubly you can. As a matter of fact not only can you do double strikethrough but you can do Double Underline. Now notice you can also do Double Strikethrough. You can just select single strikethrough and it will strikethrough whatever is selected. Strikethrough is one of the options you get here.

Well the trick for that is to go to Show Fonts, or Command T. Well, if you select some text and you go to Font you can see you can make things Bold, Underline, Italic. Say you want to strike something out by putting a line through it. But there are so many little different tips and tricks that even people that use stickies everyday don't know about. A lot of people use it to put little bits of text on the screen to remind them of things, to have a list and other things readily available to them. So stickies has been around for 20+ years on the Mac. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can find out more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 700 supporters. Today let me show you all sorts of advanced tips and tricks for using stickies on your Mac.

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