TextEdit save as .txt?

Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any way to have TextEdit save a document as a .txt by default? It's rather annoying to have to rename the extension from .rtf to .txt every time.

TextEdit->Preferences->New Document->select Plain Text. Works like that in SL and, AFAIK, in Lion.

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I am having a problem seeing the notes I put on my Nano. I am composing and saving in TextEdit, but have been unable to save files in .txt, as specified in the Nano manual. When I did save using .txt, I got a warning saying I would also have to use .rtf. The files are saving, but I can't actually see their contents.
On my Nano, "enable disc use" is greyed out, but checked. The online documentation says this is O.K. and means the Nano disc is enabled.
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Thank you for your response, but the "save as text" (.txt) is what is now resulting in an empty file. It used to produce a full text file.

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We have migrated to XI 3 from 6.5, on Win2k3 an Oracle. We have some documents that we used to save as txt for exporting data to another application, and in XI 3 the encoding used when saving as txt with DesktopIntelligence is UTF-8. In 6.5 version was ANSI. Is any place where we can configure it to ANSI?
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1. From BOXIR2 onwards that is BOXIR3 also it is a Unicode supported application and the data in the report will be Unicode data therefore we canu2019t change the codepage of BOXIR3 to ANSI.
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3. Would request you to visit the following link
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So which OS is to blame? The Mac seems to be inserting weird paragraph returns that Windows doesn't understand, no matter what type of file encoding you use (UTF-8, Western Windows Latin 1, Western DOS Latin 1).
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Wow. Why bother reading the forum if you are convinced the solution isn't going to work before even trying it?
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I quit EasyFind, opened TextEdit and made a simple change in the preferences, saved and then quit TextEdit.
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Hi Marli,
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