Notepad

• Notepad overview:

Notepad is a basic text editor that you can use to create simple documents. The most common use for Notepad is to view or edit text (.txt) files, but many users find Notepad a simple tool for creating Web pages.

Because Notepad supports only very basic formatting, you cannot accidentally save special formatting in documents that need to remain pure text. This is especially useful when creating HTML documents for a Web page because special characters or other formatting may not appear in your published Web page or may even cause errors.

You can save your Notepad files as Unicode, ANSI, UTF-8, or big-endian Unicode. These formats provide you greater flexibility when working with documents that use different character sets.





• To find specific characters or words:

1.On the Edit menu, click Find.
2.In Find what, type the characters or words you want to find.
3.Click Find Next.







• To find and replace specific characters or words:

1.On the Edit menu, click Replace.
2.In Find what, type the characters or words you want to find.
3.In Replace with, type the replacement text.
4.To replace all instances of the text at once, click Replace All. Or, to replace one instance at a time, click Find Next, and then click Replace.





To wrap text to the window size:

• On the Format menu, click Word Wrap.



Important notice:
A check mark appears when word wrap is turned on.
Wrapping text enables you to see all the text on the line, but it doesn't affect the way text appears when it is printed

To change the font style and size

On the Format menu, click Font.
Make your selections in Font, Font style, and Size.
Note

An example of how your font will look appears in Sample.