What Is Plain Text?

Plain text format is text without any text decoration, without any bold, underline, italics, graphics, symbols or special characters and special printing format. Only the text is saved without its formatting. Convert all section breaks, page breaks, and newline characters into paragraph marks. Set with ANSI characters. Select this format only if the target program cannot read any other valid file format.

Plain text format

Right!

Plain text format is text without any text decoration, without any bold, underline, italics, graphics, symbols or special characters and special printing format. Only the text is saved, and its formatting is not saved. Convert all section breaks, page breaks, and newline characters into paragraph marks. Set with ANSI characters. Select this format only if the target program cannot read any other valid file format.

Common plain text file extensions: txt, htm, asp, bat, c, bas, prg, cmd, log, etc. (The log format is the plain text format written by the software installation or uninstallation. If you want to change the name At this time, the system does not consider it to be plain text. It appears to be plain text, but it is not).

Chinese name

Plain text format

Corresponding format

Rich text

Meaning

Save text only without formatting

Common extensions

txt, htm, asp, etc.

Rich text format corresponding to plain text format

rtf is the abbreviation of RICH TEXT FORMAT, which means multi-text format. This is a DOC-like (Word document) file with good compatibility. You can use the "WordPad" in Windows "Accessories" to open and edit it. When you use WordPad to open an RTF format file, you will see the contents of the file; if you want to view the source code of the TRF format file, just use Notepad to open it. That is to say, you can use the "Notepad" to edit RTF format files just like editing HTML files. For ordinary users, RTF format is a very good file format conversion tool, which can be used to perform between different applications. Transfer of formatted text documents.

The functions of the rtf file and the doc file are almost the same. The only difference is that rtf does not support macros, while doc does. So if you don't need macros, it is recommended to use the rtf format to avoid macro viruses.

Editor in plain text

Commonly used are notepad, vi, TED Notepad, TXTediter, Notepad ++, Quickpad, etc. that come with Windows.