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It would be super handy to edit txt files in the preview window that opens when you click a document in your dropbox in the browser. So I can quickly store some text without having the pain of downlo...
Love the new ability to edit Office files, but I don't often work with Word if I can avoid it. How about letting us edit plain .txt files? Seems simpler than Office support.
Yes good one! Why isn't it possible to open and edit .txt files in Office Mobile through Dropbox?
I feel the same way. It has been three months. Is anyone there to answer the question?
- Rich
Super User II
Why isn't it possible to open and edit .txt files in Office Mobile through Dropbox?
You'd have to ask Microsoft as it's their system.
or any other app!
There are plenty of apps available that will connect to Dropbox and allow you to edit text files. Have you looked through the store for your platform?
Here's a great list for iOS text editors. Click the Dropbox column header and it will show only those that have Dropbox support. There are also web-based text editors that will connect to Dropbox. Some pay, some free. A quick Google search located several.
Yes!!! Would like to be able to edit .txt either through Microsoft Office Word Mobile or any other app!
Thanks for the useful comment, Rich R.
As you point out, there are some great standalone apps on mobile and desktop platforms to edit .txt files (I'm partial to Sublime Text, myself), but what I'm suggesting is a browser-based plain-text editor on par with the Microsoft-based one that comes up when you hit "open" in the web interface looking at a .docx file. I'd like to be able to contine working in plain text on my machine, but still be able to share a file with someone else through Dropbox and know they can open and edit it right there in their browser as they can with a .docx file.
This is a larger complaint, but it's odd to me that Dropbox (and Google Docs for that matter) don't embrace .txt files a bit more.
I'd like to see Dropbox offering connective editing for flat screen devices (tablets and phablets). Connective editing could give them more raw editing power than what's standard on home computers running MS Word.
