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I've just got a new iMac, running Sonoma. My old iMac was running Catalina.

When I open an .rtf document while another document is also open in TextEdit, it opens the second document in a new tab in the existing window, rather than in a new window like it did in Catalina. I'd prefer to open documents in a new window by default.

I can't see anything in the TextEdit menus or settings dialogue to control this. Is it possible to change this behaviour, or is this yet another feature Apple have taken away?

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Open System Settings, navigate to Desktop and Dock and check the setting under “Windows” Prefer tabs when opening documents.

Most probably you have set it to “Always”, so I recommend to change it to “In Full Screen”

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    That's solved it, thanks very much!
    – Colin
    Commented Mar 27 at 19:33

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