I just write in plain text, whenever I can. In my own case, I’ve tried to defend Docs to book designers, screencast hosts, Office 2010 users, and magazine editors, and now I’m done defending Docs. Many online content systems choke on the invisible parameters that Docs places on your text, so hence my editors’ dilemma. That doesn’t seem like a problem, unless you’ve tried to copy the text out of any Docs document into any other program. txt files from Google Docs – you have to convert them to Docs’ own house format to view, or edit, those files. txt extension, either from within the file or in bulk.
#GET PLAIN TEXT FROM GOOGLE DOCS DOWNLOAD#
You can download a “Document,” or word processing file from Google Docs, as a text file, with the standard. Which brings me to Google Docs, and a good question my editor, Mark Kaelin, here at TechRepublic asked me about plain text: why is it a second-class citizen? He didn’t put it that way, but that’s what it seems like. When things get wonky with web platforms or versions or lost emails, there’s always the plain text file that has just the words. So I write my posts in plain text, in Markdown style, which one can quickly convert to very clean HTML, if needed. I write for three publications every week, each with their own set of editors’ preferences and content management systems. It’s been very valuable to be able to work in plain text.” “Windows 7, or Windows XP SP1, they have Notepad. “I make myself comfortable in this, because it’s the only thing every client will have,” he said (from memory). So, being the kind of type who bothers people, I asked him why.
He seemed, in many respects, out of place in the Euro-style cafe. It was a strangely sunny mid-winter afternoon in Buffalo, and the web developer was editing HTML in Notepad on a Windows laptop at the counter. Kevin Purdy ponders the peculiar fact that you cannot view or edit a plain text file in Google Docs without first converting it. The Google Docs text editor that doesn’t edit text files
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