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

Remember cursive lessons in school? Endless loops, a teacher hovering, and ink all over your sleeve. Most of us haven't ...

Formatting is easily one of the biggest annoyances when copying text from the web into a local document. That’s not a problem if you’re using a plain text editor like Sublime Text, but it becomes a ...

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 ...

Creating effective, great-looking HTML emails can be tricky when you consider today's rendering challenges and concerns such as dark mode and accessibility. So, it's understandable that many marketers ...

Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back ...

There are basically two kinds of people who want to write things in plain text files: those who have to deal with weird, intractable cross-platform formatting issues, and those who just like the ...

In Microsoft Word and Excel, add only the text you copy from a Web page or other source, and leave the images, formatting, and other nontext elements behind. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

In the annals of computer history, no two keystroke combinations have done more to boost worker productivity than Ctrl-C to copy to the clipboard whatever you’ve selected on the screen, and Ctrl-V to ...

Pasting text from web pages into Microsoft Word can be a serious pain—all you wanted was the text, but it copies the formatting. Reader Wille writes in with a quick tip to make it simpler. The ...