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I need to write an article for a request in .txt format but I don't know what that is...can an article written in Word be translated to .txt? How ? Why? This could be a topic for an article....Thanks to anyone who can help!

.txt is just plaintext, and is supported by every possible word processor (including Notepad). Word can save as a .txt, but remember that it will strip out absolutely everything that's not a character, space, tab or return. If you save it from Word, make sure you open it up in Notepad (or equivalent if on a different OS) to see that Word didn't output any odd characters or mess with the spacing, etc.

Ah, I see. Many thanks.

So if you were submitting an article which you had saved from word as a Txt document, would you be able/need to put all those features back in again?

Cheers.

.Txt is, by it's nature, completely unformatted so none of the formatting is saved. If you wanted to retain any formatting, you would also have to save it as a separate .rtf or .doc/.docx file.

EXAMPLE:

If I wrote this in Word:
"This is a sentence that I may have written in Word. It contains formatting, colors and other features."

And then saved it as .txt, this would be the result when I open it back up (in any program):
"This is a sentence that I may have written in Word. It contains formatting, colors and other features."