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Creating a Plain-Text File Notepad or Notepad++ in Windows. These programs should save plain text files by default. WordPad in Windows. Use File ? Save As... and select the option that allows you to save the file as a Text Document ? rather than Rich Text Format (RTF), which is the default. TextEdit on the Mac.

Another way to create a text file is to right-click an empty area on the desktop, and in the pop-up menu, select New, and then select Text Document. Creating a text file this way opens your default text editor with a blank text file on your desktop. You can change the name of the file to anything you want.

In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.).

Plain text format is made of numbers, upper and lower case characters, punctuation marks, and a few special characters. A plain text file format mostly consists of readable characters. Examples of non-readable characters in plain text files include tab, end of file, line breaks, and spacing.

Common examples of text files include saved email messages, word processing documents and log files. Popular text format extensions include . TXT, . DOCX and .

Microsoft Word CAN create a text file, but you MUST save it correctly. You must choose the "Save as Type" of Plain Text (*. txt). If you use the default type, you get a DOC file.

On your Mac, open an app that lets you create documents. For example, open TextEdit to create a plain text, rich text, or HTML document. Click New Document in the Open dialog, or choose File > New.