With a little imagination, this stray tool comes in handy all the time. Windows Notepad is a text editor that you can use to view, create, o...
With a little imagination, this stray tool comes in handy all the time. Windows Notepad is a text editor that you can use to view, create, or edit small text files. Text files differ from word processing files in that they contain only letters, numbers, and symbols. (Files made on word processing programs also include formatting information such as
line spacing, paragraph indentation, margins, and italics.)
Some text files, such as your computer's Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files, are commands that already exist on your computer and are vital to its proper functioning. Other files you create are not necessarily crucial to the operation of your computer, but they may be crucial to you.
If you are not into reprogramming your computer, however, Notepad can be used as kind of a simplistic word processor. Since it does not perform spell checks or offer different fonts, among other things, it is not ideal for creating major documents. But just because Notepad doesn't perform executive functions doesn't mean it isn't useful. Notepad can be the stray tool that, with a little imagination, comes in handy all the time. Here are a few ideas.
• You are at the office (or anywhere, as long as you have your Windows environment available) and want to jot down a grocery list to print out for after work.
• While on the phone, you want to note directions to an unfamiliar place that you can print out and take with you.
• The plot for your next best seller flashes through your head and you can't find a pen!
• Everyone at your dinner party wants your chocolate-chip cheesecake recipe. You can type it in and print out multiple copies.
Are you convinced? Well, in case you ever have the urge, we'll explain right here an....
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