I like using this feature to remove any formatting when pasting to other sources, when there is no “paste special” command into the app i’m working with. One feature I do like is when you copy & paste into Notepad the text formatting is removed because of the utf-8 encoding. You can open the menus via the keyboard shortcut combination of the Alt key.Īs you can imagine since it is a very basic text editor, Notepad only comes with 26 keyboard shortcuts. Notepad has a basic interface, with only one window and 4 menus at the top, File, Edit, Format, View. I’ve used the text editor to write quick instructions for work, adding a “readme file” to digital products or even using Notepad to update code. In most cases it’s more than enough if you want to take quick notes without worrying about formatting. Notepad isn’t designed for full blown word processing, but for basic text documents.Ĭreating quick, plain text files is what it does best, the only text styling offered is being able to change the font style and size. I love it’s simplicity and ability to create text files quickly.īut you can’t compare it to Windows Wordpad and definitely not to Microsoft Word, because it simply doesn’t have the same feature set. I’ve used Windows Notepad since Windows 3.11.

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