Text files don't have bold, italics, header sizes, margin tabs, or anything that might get lost in travel from one word editing tool to another. Text files just have text, and I love them for it.

This can be created by dragging the selected files and folders into the TextEdit document, again set to Plain Text, instead of pasting.

For many years people have used the free TextEdit app on their Macs to quickly create plain text files. Apple for some reason has never brought this useful program to its mobile devices, so it can ...

Fortunately, you can convert Excel files to plain text files, which can then be imported into almost any spreadsheet program, such as Intuit's QuickBooks accounting software.