Hi JMichaelTX, thank you for your reply and for your macro. I tried it out, and it worked quite well to make the text red (for instance). The only thing is that when I applied the macro on a TextEdit document and the new red text appeared, it was in a different font size than the previous text in the document. I was trying it out on Text Edit. The same thing happened when I tried it in Mail, except that in this case it also went to the next line as opposed to continuing writing on the same line. Any suggestions?