Plain Text
I was talking to a co-worker the other day. He was creating a document in TextEdit and wanted to save it as plain text. He tried File > Save and didn’t see a plain text option. He thought that it wasn’t possible to save his document as plain text and he was right. Sort of.
You can create plain text documents in Text Edit. The trick is you have to convert your document, not save it. Simply choose Format > Make Plain Text or use the “handy” keyboard shortcut Command Shift T. (I don’t know about you, but I’m not overly fond of “shortcuts” that require a combination of three or more keys.)
Converting to plain text removes any formatting in the document (which is what you would expect). Now when you choose File > Save your only choice is to save as a TXT file. It’s also handy when you want to view and edit HTML tags for web pages.
