hi Mrs D, glad it worked out for you. The downside of using text/ascii would be the fact of its simplicity. No rich text formats, no rich extensive fonts, just a simple Microsoft native format.

Which should answer Ms. Melody's question about simplicity.

probably no other format will be simpler than the text format.

1) not everyone has Microsoft "WORD" (Bill Gates used to give it for free as a bundle that came with the computers when the computers cost thousands. But now that the computers are cheaper[yet faster], the MS people are now charging about $200.00 for MS office thus we now have to pay for WORD) but every computer have notepad built right in.

2)based on number one, we can safely bet that if anyone have had saved it in the text format and they've had to reformat their hardrive or upgrade to a new Window system, they then would not need to install an additional software because of the native format of the TEXT.

3)using TEXT also saves more space for those that don't want to clutter up space on their hardrive.

hope all these explain the reasoning behind why for me, I prefer to save it in TEXT.



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