Exporting to PDF vs DOCX vs plain text

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PDF is the safest choice when formatting matters and you don't want anyone accidentally editing the record — timestamps, speaker labels, and layout all survive intact.

DOCX is the right call when the recipient actually needs to edit the text — quote-pulling, redlining, or turning it into a report.

Plain text is for pipelines, not people — feeding a transcript into another tool, a search index, or a script.