This is driving me nuts. On Lion, I could select an option to save as .txt using textedit. Now, I can only save as .rtf etc. Does anybody know the solution? Cheers.
iPod Classic, iPhone 3GS, iPad, MacBook Pro
Open the preferences and change the default file as text.
Excellent. Thankyou. Duplicating the file and trying to save did not work. I had to cut and paste everything to a new document, but it worked. Much appreciated.
You can always click on "Format" and then "Make Plain Text".
The save it as .txt and that's it.
TextEdit's behaviour is very strange - if you change the default new document to "Plain Text" then create a new document you get the option to chose the character set to use when saving, but no option to pick RTF, DOC etc.
If you change the default new document to "Rich Text" then create a new document you get the option to pick RTF, DOC etc but no option to save as plain text.
If you change the preferences it doesn't impact the behaviour of the open & unsaved window. You have to create a new document after chaning the preferences.
Easier to give up on TextEdit and use somethng like TextWrangler which just works like you'd expect it
Andyw1 wrote:
Easier to give up on TextEdit and use somethng like TextWrangler which just works like you'd expect it
Correct, as long as you never want to create rich text = .doc, .rtf, etc.
How to use text wrangler? I have no idea. Please help
You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.
How do I save .txt files with Textedit on Mountain Lion?
