Plain text converters
A plain text file (.txt) holds only characters and line breaks: no fonts, colours, images or layout. That makes it the most portable document format there is, readable by every editor, search tool and programming language.
Convert Plain text
What to know about Plain text
- The encoding decides how letters beyond A-Z are stored; UTF-8 covers every alphabet.
- Windows ends lines with CR LF, Mac and Linux with LF; current editors read both.
- There is no page layout, so page breaks are written as marker lines or form feed characters.
File extensions: .txt