Notepad
Notepad is a text editor software that is useful to create some text file with no formatting requirement. Notepad is one of the default app of windows operating system. The default file format of notepad is .txt
The text file created with Notepad:
1. cannot be more than 20 KB size
2. cannot have more than one formatting style
3. cannot store formatting styles
4. cannot have graphics
File Operations
New (Ctrl+N): creates a new file
Open (Ctrl+O): opens an existing file
Save (Ctrl+s): saves the file with 3 identifications when we are saving first time.
saves the modifications in the same file. this time it won’t show any dialog.
Save As: works same as save command when we are saving first time.
in the case of re-opened file, it tries to save the modifications into another file with different name or different location or different format.
Page Setup: used to set dimensions of the printable page
Print (Ctrl+P): used to start printing of specified pages with specified printer.
Exit: closes the application. It is same as closing Notepad using Close button on the title bar.
Select and Editing Text
Undo(Ctrl+z): used to cancel the last action.
Select All (Ctrl+A): used to select entire text in the notepad file.
Cut (Ctrl+X): used to move the selected text
Copy (Ctrl+C): used to duplicate the selected text.
Paste (Ctrl+V): used to complete cut and copy operations.
Delete (del): used to delete one character at right side of the cursor. It can also delete entire selected text.
Find (Ctrl+F): used to find some text or phrase in the text based document.
options in the Find dialog box:
1. Find What: Type of word or phrase you want to search
2. Direction: Search direction of desired word with respect to the position of cursor. You can search either in up or down directions.
3. Match case: check this box to control the search by exact match.
Replace: (Ctrl+H) used to replace the found word with some other. You can replace some or all the found words.
Formatting Text
Word Wrap: used to specify the boundary of the paragraph. When checked, total paragraph text will be displayed within the boundary of Notepad window. When unchecked, each paragraph is displayed in single line.
Font: used to specify the name of the font model, style and size to display entire text in the notepad window.