Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or Word.

ANSI and UTF-8 are two types of text encoding. The former is the default encoding that is used when you save text files created in Notepad, the text editor included in the Windows operating system.

If you keep on changing TextEdit from rich text mode to plain text each time you open the app, here's how you can change the default settings in the often-used text-editing tool. TextEdit is arguably ...

Although BBEdit, from Bare Bones Software, is not my primary text editor, I’ve recently observed myself using it a great deal anyway for various tasks, some which don’t have all that much to do with ...

While working on a Microchip PIC project, I created a set of SCPI-style (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) commands to control the PIC. These SCPI commands use the first four characters ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...