Text files don't have bold, italics, header sizes, margin tabs, or anything that might get lost in travel from one word editing tool to another. Text files just have text, and I love them for it.

For many years people have used the free TextEdit app on their Macs to quickly create plain text files. Apple for some reason has never brought this useful program to its mobile devices, so it can ...

This can be created by dragging the selected files and folders into the TextEdit document, again set to Plain Text, instead of pasting.

You can convert Plain Text to Musical Notation PDF in Windows 11/10 using this free software called LilyPond. Create high-quality sheet music!

Fortunately, you can convert Excel files to plain text files, which can then be imported into almost any spreadsheet program, such as Intuit's QuickBooks accounting software.

If you want to extract highlighted text from PDF file as a plain text file, then this post covers some good free PDF Highlight Extractor software to do that.