Ever wish you could format your email on the go with more than just plain text? Good news: Google has updated Gmail so you can now use rich text formatting such as bold or colored text. You can also ...

Outlook email format messed up? Maybe you need to fix formatting in Outlook. There are three message formats for sending and receiving messages: Hyperlink Markup Language (HTML), Rich Text Format (RTF ...

A standard block or text—or signature or .sig—at the bottom of an outgoing email message dates back decades. Modern email software, like Apple’s Mail app for macOS, gives you full access to design a ...

Tired of your bland plain text Gmail signature? Want to spice it up with your company logo and some bold formatting? Google has done you right — now Gmail signatures support rich text format. Here’s ...

If you use any applications with Cocoa-based text editors (TextEdit, Mail.app, and many more), you may have noticed that some of them, like Mail.app, recognize URLs and automatically turn them into ...

In the early days of Windows, Microsoft created a format called Rich Text Format so Word files can be opened on any platform. It was and is still supported by a lot of editors, which allow them to ...

Poor little TextEdit! Despite having a rich history—starting life as Edit in the Next’s NextStep operating system before becoming a feature in Mac OS X—the app gets little regard. But it deserves our ...

For some silly reason, OS X’s TextEdit app’s default format is rich text. If you prefer plain text, Defaults Write points out that you can easily set that as your default with a Terminal command. All ...

You may need to identify the image format in a Rich Text Format file to help update your business communications. Common image files include raster graphics such as Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), ...