When I put carriage returns in a TextEdit .txt file, they show up as square boxes in one long line in Notepad on a PC.
How do I solve this without needing to worry about how it will display in Notepad?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
That's been a problem with straight text files between the Mac OS and Windows since forever. One uses a line feed character to start a new paragraph, and the other uses a carriage return. I don't remember which OS does what.
The Mac has no problem with this difference and will display a Notepad (or any other straight text document) from Windows as you would expect it to look. But Windows never interprets the way a Mac handles text file paragraph breaks correctly.
So any fixes? Without having to scrub my documents and add returns again?
Not one that I've ever heard of. But then, I also never looked that hard. Someone else may have an idea. Just depends on who takes the time to read this thread.
D'oh! I was thinking of that one, too, but wasn't sure it would it would help. That is a very nice editor that many Mac users also use rather than TextEdit. Glad you found an easy, and free solution. 🙂
Square boxes in Notepad from TextEdit file
