Notepad is a basic text editor included in all versions of Windows since Windows 1.0.
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Convert between UTF-8 to 1255 online and locally?
I have this HTML file
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML DIR="RTL" LANG="HE">
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ...
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What do Ctrl-J, Ctrl-M and Ctrl-I mean in Microsoft Notepad?
I just noticed, by a fluke, that when hitting Ctrl+J or Ctrl+M in Microsoft Notepad (on Windows 7), it has and same effect as Enter.
Hitting Ctrl+I has and same effect as Tab.
This has no practical ...
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Notepad++ command to tweak document path and filename
In Notepad++ 5.8.6, is there a way to copy to the clipboard the current document's full path and filename after applying a regular expression replace?
For example, I can do Edit > Copy to Clipboard > ...
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determine when unsaved Notepad file was created
I have an open notepad file on my machine which I don't recall making. Is there a way I can determine what time and day the file was created (registry key or whatnot)? I haven't saved it yet because ...
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How to change notepad default size and position?
On my Windows 7 PC, notepad opens at the same position and its window has same size each time. In Application appears off screen thread Kaze gives the way to reset it by deleting some registry ...
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How can I merge multiple cells back into one?
I need to take content from an Excel spreadsheet (see below for example), that takes up about 20 cells, and paste it into one cell. I've tried pasting it into a word or notepad documents, and then ...
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Changing the default ANSI to UTF-8 in Notepad
I got an e-book reader a few months ago, and I finally figured out why it doesn't display .txt files correctly. It doesn't like ANSI. It has no problem with the other 3 types of coding notepad ...
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Notepad takes 8 seconds to open
I have an i7-3930K with 32GB RAM, using 256GB SSD, running Win 7 Ultimate.
It takes 8 seconds to open notepad after going
Win+r -> notepad -> enter
Why is this so SLOW? WTF?
Don't suggest ...
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How to Restore ovewritten .txt file
i had a file name goodaccounts it had data , my software overwrote the file goodaccounts.txt so now the previous data is gone can you tell me how to bring back the previous data
i am using simple ...
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Notepad with instant search in files
I'm looking for a Notepad replacement that could instantly search in opened files.
I mean something like searching in Evernote notes (start typing and then my list of files updates to only files which ...
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Show 1 paragraph Right-to-Left and 1 Left_to-Right in Notepad
I have 2 paragraphs in Notepad i want that 1 should be shown from Left_to-Right, and the second from Right-to-Left, how do i do that?
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What does “Reconversion” do in notepad?
When I right click on Notepad, there come up options for right-to-left languages. But at the end exists an option "Reconversion". I have installed a Japanese LIP and it seems like I have got hold of ...
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All files trying to start in Notepad [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Window7 troubleshooting .exe is not opening
This question has been asked, but the solutions given were worthless to me because ALL files are trying to open in Notepad. I ...
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Notepad Automatically Launches Upon Boot Up of my Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop PC
Around 12 months ago, When my Windows 7 PC boots up, Notepad started to appear automatically on the desktop (as a duplicate ie one on top of the other), both displaying the same writing inside, and ...
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Why doesn't disabling IE's 'Protected Mode' enable the dragging-and-dropping of addresses from the IE address bar into Notepad
IE's Protected Mode prevents one dragging the address from the IE address bar into other applications (for example Notepad). There's an informative article on MSDN about Allowing Drag and Drop ...
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How can I move a window that cannot be moved by mouse? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to bring a windows application back onscreen?
I have downloaded a version of Finale Notepad on Windows 7. When I first used it it functioned perfectly.
Every time ...
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Overwrite text in Windows Notepad
I would like to be able to overwrite text in Windows Notepad. I am using Windows 7 Professional. Ideally I would like to be able to position the cursor next to a string of text and erase that text ...
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How to format numbered lists pasted from Word into Notepad?
When I copy a numbered list from MS Word into Notepad, I get a large space between the numbers and the text.
How do I get rid of this space, please?
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Kill a process when user presses “logoff”, “shutdown” or “restart”
I often use notepad.exe for temporary messages. I never use it for something I need to save: I have normal text editors and MS OneNote for that.
When I shut down, multiple instances of Notepad is ...
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How can you get the specific spaces you want to remove in notepad ++
Example:
I want to remove the
space
I want to remove the
space
I want to remove the
space
How can I remove the word SPACE so that the three sentences will be a complete thought.
Is there a ...
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Why does Notepad “randomly” make pasted text a smaller font size?
Sometimes when I copy and paste text into Notepad, it will paste the text in the default Notepad font and size, however, the latter half of the pasted line will be multiple font sizes smaller. I'm ...
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How to copy the command prompt commands to a text editor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to copy text in the Windows command line 'cmd'?
How to copy the commands typed in the command prompt onto a text editor or Word?
As Ctrl + C doesn't work in ...
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Add Notepad to Right-click new menu in Windows 7
Here's what my right-click menu looks like:
There used to be a "New Text Document" item there but it's gone.
Here's my registry value:
Any idea how to fix it?
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In windows xp, I can't print from notepad but can from ms word
In windows XP, (added-it looks a bit like) I can't print from notepad, but I can from ms word. Why is this, what can I do to solve it?
UPDATE- turns out I can print from notepad, if there is text in ...
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How to divide .for file on parts with conditions
If we have for example very big matrix .for file 50MB shown down. I have to
divide it on 50 separated .for files not bigger then 1Mb. How to make them automatically,
not copy/paste manual? As we have ...
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Can't remove formatting in Notepad, PureText not working for YouTube
If I go to a YouTube link, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jfm-92JXVE and I want to copy some comments to notepad, I find some text is still smaller than other text.
If I select it all and do ...
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How to transfer results to Excel
I have a massive (and I mean MASSIVE) amount of results from Minitab 16 displayed as plain text organized in columns and rows.
My problem: I need to put all this information into tables to manipulate ...
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Windows XP “open with” not allowing a custom option
Up until today I had text files set to open with Notepad++.
Today I moved my Notepad++ installation, and after that I am no longer to use "open with" to get a text file open in Notepad++, even though ...
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Insert bullets in Micosoft Notepad
Is there any shortkey to insert 'bullet' character in Microsoft Notepad ?
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Search Replace extended in a html file
i have a little question. I have a big html file and want to replace lots of things inside a lot of times. The only problem i cant solve is a replace with a variable.
Example:
<image ...
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Unable to change the file-format of New Text Document
I'm trying to change the file-format of New Text Document to html.But the file-extension was changed and still it open as a .txt file.
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What program/text editor can i use [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Find and Replace using different keywords
Im trying to find and replace some stuff,
i need to find and replace using the following terms in one file: (actually i need ...
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Find and Replace using different keywords
Example. I want to find and replace using:
Test1
Test2
Test3
Of course I have to input and click it 3 times in order for me to find and replace using those terms. How do I do it in one shot?
Does ...
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Is this a serious bug in Notepad in Windows XP? [closed]
The Scenario is as follows:
I am using Windows XP. Suppose I have a text file in desktop named foo.txt.
I open foo.txt the first time and start making changes and I have not yet saved, so the state ...
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Replacing notepad.exe in Windows 7
OK, I really really want to replace the default notepad.exe in Windows 7 with Editpad (yes, I want to replace the actual executable, and no I don't want to use something like Notepad2, so please don't ...
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Windows Notepad and Notepad++ show newlines in same file differently
I created a Perl script which gets some data and inserts it line by line to a text file. When I open that file with Notepad++, it appears to have an empty line separation between each two lines of ...
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Arabic subtitle files (srt) encoding is corrupted on windows 7
i copied some arabic subtitle files from a friend
and when trying to view them on windows 7 home premium with notepad
the texts appears as follows:
ÃíåÇ ÇáÓÇÏÉ ÃäÇ ÇáÂä Úáì æÔß ÅÑÓÇá ÅÔÇÑÉ
ãä åÐÇ ...
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PowerPoint 2010 opens link to PDF file in Notepad
When I try to open a PDF file in a Powerpoint 2010 presentation on my laptop, I get a dialog like this:
Opening: path/filename.pdf
Some files can contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to ...
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How do I flip the line orders of a document with 500+ lines?
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
should become
Line 5
Line 4
Line 3
Line 2
Line 1
I need a notepad script to do this.
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Finding, deleting soft hyphens from a piece of text
I'm trying to clean up a piece of text I've copied from an OCR'd PDF. Currently the text contains a lot of (what I assume are) soft hyphens. This makes it difficult to 'Find' them in Notepad or ...
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Making a custom text editor the default one
In Windows, there's a "edit" menu option when you right-click on a unkown file-type. When you select it, the sucky Notepad thing will open that file.
How can I change Notepad with another editor, ...
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Is there a “restore” solution for NotePad?
When my computer gets shut down unexpectedly (e.g. crash) the unsaved running notepad.exes have all their data lost (unlike other programs whereby I could easily do a "restore").
Is there a "restore" ...
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Notepad Ctrl-Backspace behavior
Text fields in almost all software erase a word when ctrl+backspace is pressed. However, Notepad behaves differently, and inserts a character which is:
`` (I copy-pasted it here. I'm not sure if it is ...
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Are there any light weight text editors (like Notepad) but with alternate background color?
I'm searching for my programming tool, i.e. a text editor. I like Notepad very much but I want a text editor with alternate background color for each line. Just like the background of the picture ...
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How to untoggle Right-to-Left text in Notepad?
I hate to have to ask this but... I've seemed to accidentally hit a couple hot-keys and my Notepad is now showing text from Right-to-Left. What was a that hot-key combo and what can I do to reverse ...
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How to Make Scite Display Chinese
Basically not just chinese characters.
I want scite to be able to display anything, japanese, korean, chinese. Anything. I can display that with notepad. Why I can't display that with scite?
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Is it possible to change the default tab-size in Notepad?
Occasionally, I use Notepad to edit some form of code/html, which means I need to tab a lot. The default indent size when hitting tab is eight spaces when ideally I'd like it be four.
Is there any ...
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How do I change or replace all instances of a character in a text file to a newline/line break/EOL in Notepad2 or Notepad++?
I tried Notepad2's 'Replace Text' function, but I don't know what to put in the 'Replace with' field.
The OS I'm using is Windows 7.
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Automatic line changing in notepad++
When I'm typing in notepad++ the line trails endlessly. I'm trying to make it automatically go to the next line once I reach the end of the line instead of continuously going. Is this possible? I used ...
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How can I 'select to end of file' in Notepad?
Temporarily stuck with Notepad, I'd like to know if there is any better or quicker way of selecting from here to the end of the file than moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen and then ...
