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Offline Clive

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« on: September 25, 2007, 18:56 »
This probably sounds daft but I need to prepare documents in good old fashioned plain text.  I have at my disposal MS Word 2000, Notepad and Outlook Express 6.  None of them seems to be capable of being up to the task!  I have hundreds of various fonts from Extraneglo Edessa to Poor Richard but Plain Text seems conspicuous by its absence! 

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Re: Plain Text
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2007, 19:11 »
I think you'll find Courier New is what you need, Clive.
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Re: Plain Text
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 19:23 »
In MS word to file/save as and select plain text .txt under file type. Make sure you have the right charset if your planning on uploading to a database or intend to fool with odd characters.

Notepad saves in .txt plaintext by default i think.

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Re: Plain Text
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2007, 20:40 »
Thanks for the replies!  Courier New seems to have fixed the problem.  8-)  But my Notepad no longer has plain text because it's eradicated from my machine!  How I really don't know!


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