To insert an image into a new message in Apple Mail, you can drag and drop it to the desired location when composing the message. But what about other essential text formatting, like bullets and tables? In macOS and Mac OS X Mail, you can only change text formatting, but with the help of TextEdit, which also comes with every Mac, additional tools for a more advanced email formatting arsenal are just a click or two away.

To use tables and lists in messages created with Mac OS X Mail, do the following:

Create a new message in Apple Mail by clicking the New Message button, selecting New Message from the File menu, or by pressing Command+N on your keyboard.

Start TextEdit from the Programs folder.