Text edit has a command that will do this. Press command shift t. Once that is 
done, saving the file should produce plain text.
On Apr 27, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Christina wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I feel dumb asking but I need to create a plain text (.txt) document.  I 
> thought I could just use text edit but in the drop down menu for save 
> document as there is no plain text option.  I thought I could just add the 
> dot txt to the end of the file name but a message dialog prompted me that I 
> could not save it as a txt but I could save it as rtf or both an rtf and txt 
> with both extensions on the file name.
> 
> I need this document to be a plain text document so that is read properly 
> when imported into a program.
> 
> Thanks ahead of time.
> 
> Christina
> 
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