How to Change Word to Txt

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Last Updated: October 9, 2024

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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Open your Word document.

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Alternatively, you can open it in any application that supports Word docs, including Corel WordPerfect or OpenOffice.

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Click the File menu.

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On some versions of Word, it will be a big round button with four colored boxes.

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Select "Save As" from the menu.

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If another menu opens before you get a chance to enter a file name, click text document, .txt, or similar.

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Name the document.

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It can have the same name as your old document, as you'll be giving it a different file extension.

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Save the document as plain text.

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Choose .txt, text, plain text, ASCII, UNICODE, or similar, and then click Save.

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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.

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Notepad and Wordpad are two programs that are usually installed on Microsoft Windows computers and are used to edit and create plain text documents.

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You can also open plain text documents in almost every word processing software.

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