Text, or .txt files generally don't have formatting, but are much smaller than MS Word documents. They are ideal for e-mail or posting to the web. Programing files are almost universally written in plain text format, and are often used to store notes or CSS and HTML files.
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- You can right click and then click on "new" then "Notepad Document" in Microsoft Windows to create a new txt document.Thanks
- Notepad and Wordpad are two programs that are usually installed on Microsoft Windows computers and are used to edit and create plain text documents.Thanks
- You can also open plain text documents in almost every word processing software.Thanks
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References
- Microsoft Word and Corel Word Perfect word processors.
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