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TextEdit save as .txt?

Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any way to have TextEdit save a document as a .txt by default? It's rather annoying to have to rename the extension from .rtf to .txt every time.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 19, 2011 2:30 PM

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Posted on Aug 19, 2011 6:26 PM

TextEdit->Preferences->New Document->select Plain Text. Works like that in SL and, AFAIK, in Lion.

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TextEdit save as .txt?

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