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A plain text file has no formatting options. You cannot change the font, font sizes, font styles, paragraph styles, and more. Sometimes a plain text document is also referred to as an ASCII file, where it is simply a set of encoded characters.

Below is the most common file extensions used with text files and documents. .doc and .docx - Microsoft Word file. .odt - OpenOffice Writer document file. .pdf - PDF file. .rtf - Rich Text Format. .tex - A LaTeX document file. .txt - Plain text file. .wpd - WordPerfect document.

A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flatfile) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists stored as data within a computer file system.

Notepad is a text editor, i.e., an app specialized in editing plain text. It can edit text files (bearing the ". txt" filename extension) and compatible formats, such as batch files, INI files, and log files.

In your word-processing program, after you've written your paper and are ready to save it to disk, click on the "save as" option instead of "save." In the drop-down window that appears, click on "text only" or "text." If these options don't appear, then click on "rich text format" ("RTF"), "text document," or "ASCII."

The easiest way to create a text file in Windows is to open up the Notepad program on your computer. The Notepad is a text editor included with Microsoft Windows. A text file is considered a plaintext file and Notepad is only capable of creating and editing plaintext files.

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