Microsoft Notepad

Software Overview

Microsoft Notepad is a simple text editor included with Microsoft Windows. It is quite useful for viewing, editing, and creating plain text files.

Because Notepad is a plain text editor, it provides only basic text formatting features. However, you can still apply different fonts, font sizes, styles, and scripts to Notepad documents. You can also adjust each document's printed page layout (including page orientation and margins), word wrap your text, and save documents using any of the following text encoding methods:

• Unicode
• UTF-8
• Big-endian Unicode
• ANSI

Notepad also includes some additional "advanced" features, such as the ability to find and replace text, search for text online using the Microsoft Bing search engine, and quickly insert the current time and date into documents. Most users, though, will use only some of these "advanced" features, if any.

Summary

Microsoft Notepad's simplicity remains its selling point. If you are looking for a straightforward app in which you can quickly take notes, view text files, and even edit source code files, Notepad is the text editor for you. However, if you are looking for advanced formatting, graphics, and page layout features, you should check out Microsoft WordPad or Microsoft Word instead.

Primary File Type

.TXTPlain Text File

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