Text File Reader For Mac

You can use the Text to Speech feature to hear selected text read aloud in a Microsoft Office for Mac file.

If you have not already done so, set up the Text to Speech feature.
1. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences.
2. Click Accessibility > Speech.
3. Select the voice that you want to use.
  Tip: You can change the speed at which words are read by moving the Speaking Rate slider.
4. Select the Speak selected text when the key is pressed check box, and then click Set Key to assign a keyboard shortcut that you want to use to hear text read aloud. The default keyboard shortcut is Option+Esc.
In your Office file, select the text that you want to hear, and then press the keyboard shortcut.

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13 Answers

Have you tried Vim? It's the only editor I use :-)

Edit: It seems to depend upon a couple of factors. I used Vim with large CSV (i.e. text-based) files and that worked great. YMMV :-)

Topher FangioTopher Fangio

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If, as you say, only really need to get an idea of the structure try opening the document in Console. Believe it or not, I'm able to view files as large as 15GB (MAC OSX 10.7.2)

Brandon BerryBrandon Berry

HexFiend is designed to read files of any size, but you'll need to work using fixed-column character wrapping and no newline detection.

DraxillionDraxillion

If you just want to have an idea of structure, how about browsing with more or less?

MikeJMikeJ

Definitely vim is the answer. Check out the macvim, the mac version.

Xavier GuardiolaXavier Guardiola

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BBEdit, that old standby, is famous for handling really large files with aplomb (or, at least, it was back in the pre-TextMate era). There's a free version, TextWranger; I assume it's based on the same core and should still work.

jacobianjacobian

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I have used gvim for files larger than 1 GB of NASTRAN output.gvim handles large files very well.In fact that was the main reason I switched from Emacs to vim.

Emacs is a great editor but it can handle files only as large as 128 MB, at least the 32-bit version. If you decide to use Emacs I recommend to configure it to turn syntax highlighting off for large files.

Another way to deal with large files those days was heavy usage of head, tail and split.

Ludwig WeinzierlLudwig Weinzierl

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The native emacs on OS X seems to be the 64-bit version now. It works like a charm on my 250MB text file.

andebaucheryandebauchery

emacs, naturally, at least a 64 bit build (you can do that on OS X now, right?)

But also, these are surely generated files. Do you really need to interact with them all at once?

simonsimon

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Vim has already been recommended. If you're using vim you might want to also use the LargeFile plugin (by the inimitable Charles 'Dr Chip' Campbell), which automatically disables various features of vim in the interests of speed for files over 100Mb (at the default setting).

Michael DunnMichael Dunn

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Since you noted in a comment that it's actually an XML file and you just want to get an idea of its structure, you may want to check out Oxygen's LargeFileViewer, a helper app which is bundled with Oxygen XML Editor. (It might also come with Author, I don't know.)

Avi FlaxAvi Flax

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Crisp claims the ability to edit files of '8GB or more', but I haven't tried it.

Alex Martelli

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Alex Martelli

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Edit: Do not use Sublime Text 2!Although it worked for me, apparently for many other users Sublime Text 2 can't handle large text files. Below is my original answer:

Sublime Text 2 for Mac 10.6.8 opened up a 200 MB file for me without any problem

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