Printing from TextEdit sometimes seems like a black art—often the font size of your printed document will be much smaller than the font size used in the onscreen original. You might be thinking ...

TextEdit with selected text blocks in differing background colors So how then did I actually do that? With a little help from Mac OS X Hints contributors Michel Scriban and toc-rox, that’s how.

For example, if you edit your TextEdit PLIST file using this method (which I did to test this), your menu bar and Dock will automatically hide when TextEdit is the active application.