What is 'plain text' formatting?

What is 'plain text' formatting?

Tim Burress (E-mail Etiquette and Organization Specialist) gives expert video advice on: What is the danger of using elaborate formatting in a business e-mail?; What are the advantages of using HTML formatting for business e-mail?; What are the disadvantages of rich text formatting for business e-mail? and more...

Plain text formatting in your business e-mails is the bottom line. You're basically just typing in pure black and white text and there's no functionalities, colour, bullet points, highlighting, underlining or bolding. All of that is lost in plain text formatting for your business e-mails. However, the advantage of plain text is that the message is a lot smaller in terms of space, and that's why companies use plain text formatting, or why they convert from another company when you try to communicate into a particular company. They'll convert from HTML, to rich, to plain text formatting when receiving a business e-mail.