In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File Open. Select the document, then click Open. If your document is stored in iCloud Drive, you can select TextEdit in the iCloud section of the sidebar, then double-click your document. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents. To see the default formatting of an HTML or RTF file, choose TextEdit.
TextEdit User Guide
TextEdit can open documents in Microsoft Word, OpenDocument, Web Archive, HTML, rich text, and plain text formats. You can also change the formatting of HTML and RTF files when you open them.
Mar 13, 2014 Apple added iCloud synchronization for Preview and TextEdit with OS X Mountain Lion, but has not yet released iOS counterparts to actually view the synchronized content. Gurman goes on to note that the apps in question, currently in the early stage of development, are “being considered for release later in the year.”. Jul 26, 2012 Click to expand. Open another Finder window where you can see the TextEdit document you want to copy to iCloud, then drag it over to the iCloud for TextEdit window. If you want to create a new TextEdit document directly to iCloud, simply click the 'New Document' button while the iCloud for TextEdit view is open. ICloud Textedit files are are stored in library/mobile documents. The open this folder, make sure you are in Finder (the Mac file system, used when you have a window open or just the desktop) and hold down the alt key and click golibrary (the library folder is not visible unless you hold alt).
Open a document
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File > Open.
Select the document, then click Open.
If your document is stored in iCloud Drive, you can select TextEdit in the iCloud section of the sidebar, then double-click your document. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents.
To see the default formatting of an HTML or RTF file, choose TextEdit > Preferences, then click Open and Save. For information about viewing RTF formatting, see View the RTF directives in RTF files.
When you use Dark Mode, you can display documents in TextEdit with a light or dark background. In TextEdit, choose View > Use Dark Background for Windows (a checkmark indicates the dark background is being used); to turn it off, choose the command again (the checkmark is removed). When you view documents in TextEdit using the dark background, some text and background colors may be displayed differently on the screen to ensure the contents of the document are legible.
Change the document format
You can change the format of your document. Plain text (.txt) doesn’t allow formatting. Rich text (.rtf) allows formatting, tables, and images. When you change a rich text document to plain text, the document loses all text styles and formatting options.
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose Format > Make Plain Text or Format > Make Rich Text.
If there’s a format you prefer for new documents, you can set the default format. Choose TextEdit > Preferences, click New Document, then select “Rich text” or “Plain text” below Format.
Today I've talked to an AppleCare Senior Advisor and he could see that there is free space but he didn't know why I can't save any new doc to iCloud.
So far we tried
1) Sign out from iCloud (System Preferences > iCloud > Sign-out) and sign in again
2) Restart mac while pressing and holding Shift to boot into safe mode.
None of them worked, also I get the same type of message in Keynote in the iPad so I guess the problem is really with my iCloud account and not with the Mac itself.
So my case has been sent to a higher level of support. I wonder if this actually has anything to do with the fact that I had to reset my apple-id password a week ago. Let's see if they come back with an answer on a couple of days.
Textedit Icloud Setup
Aug 15, 2012 12:13 PM