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'''Formatted text''', '''styled text''', or '''rich text''', as opposed to [[plain text]], has styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colors, styles (boldface, italic), sizes, and special features (such as [[Hyperlink|hyperlinks]]).

== Description ==

Formatted text cannot rightly be identified with [[Binary file|binary files]] or be distinct from ASCII text. This is because formatted text is not necessarily binary, it may be text-only, such as [[HTML]], RTF or enriched text files, and it may be ASCII-only.

Conversely, a plain text file may be non-ASCII (in an encoding such as Unicode UTF-8).

Text-only formatted text is achieved by markup which too is textual, while some editors of formatted text like Microsoft Word save in a binary format.

== See also ==

* [[Online rich-text editor]]
* [[Prepress]]
* [[Text encoding]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formatted_text Formatted text] @ Wikipedia

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Karl Jones: Created page with "'''Formatted text''', '''styled text''', or '''rich text''', as opposed to plain text, has styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colors, styles (bol..."