You can take away the fancy formatting, syncing capabilities, and almost everything else; plain text is still the best way to ...

You’re browsing the web, find some interesting text, copy and paste it elsewhere… And then realize it’s got all the original formatting, now entirely unnecessary. And maybe an unwanted image, too.

For some silly reason, OS X’s TextEdit app’s default format is rich text. If you prefer plain text, Defaults Write points out that you can easily set that as your default with a Terminal command. All ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software ...

Ralph Petersoncalled to say he was editing aMicrosoft Word document, but was having problems with itsformatting. Ralph said some paragraphs had peculiar formatting, andhis attempts to make them all ...

Looking back through my old files, I’m amazed to see how many word processors I’ve used over the years. I’ve got document files in formats ranging from MacWrite to Pages and everything in between. The ...

Plain text (.txt) is one of the most common, open file formats in computing. Virtually all word processors support it, or at the very least can export files in this format. Wikipedia lists some ...

To use HTML e-mail, or not to use HTML e-mail? That is the question e-mail marketers are asking themselves these days. And with good reason. No complete studies, to my knowledge, have been published ...