Notepad Tutorials

What is Notepad?

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. The extension of notepad is .txt

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.

There are some menu and toolbars are also available.
                            
File menu

New: - This option is used for create a new text document

1. steps:-click on file menu
2. Select new option or 
3. Press Ctrl+N key from the key board. 

Open:- It is used for open your document which you have saved.

1. steps:- click on file menu
2. select open option
3. a dialog box will be displayed
4. select your file 
5. click on open button
6. or press Ctrl+O key from the keyboard.

Save: - It is used for save your file in the current directory.

1. steps:- click on file menu
2. select save option 
3. a dialog box will be displayed
4. type your file name 
5. click on save button
6. or press Ctrl+S from the keyboard.

Save as: - It is used for save your file with different name.

1. steps:- click on file menu
2. select save as option 
3. a dialog box will be displayed
4. type your file name (new name )
5. click on save button.

Page setup: - It is used to set the page margin from left right top and bottom.

Print: - It is used for print your file on the paper.

Edit menu

Undo: - It is used to reverse last performed action.

1. Steps:-Click on edit menu
2. Select undo option Or 
3. press Ctrl+Z from the keyboard.

Cut: - It is used for cut the selected text

1. steps:-select the text or sentence
2. click on edit menu
3. select cut option or 
4. press Ctrl+X from the keyboard.

Copy: - It is used for copy the selected text or sentence.

1. steps:- select the text or sentence
2. click on edit menu
3. select copy option or 
4. press Ctrl+C from the keyboard.

Paste:- It is used for paste the cut/copied text or sentence.

1. Steps:- cut/copy the text or sentence
2. click on edit menu
3. select paste option or
4. press Ctrl+V from the keyboard.

Delete:- It is used for clear the selected text or sentence.

Find: - It is used to find any particular text / word / sentence

1. Steps:- Click on edit menu
2. Select find option 
3. A dialog box will be displayed
4. Type the word in finds what box
5. Click on find next button as your requirement. 

Replace: - It is used to replace any particular text/word/sentence with any new text /word/sentence

1. Steps:-click on edit menu
2. Select replace option 
3. A dialog box will be displayed
4. Type the word in find what box which you want to replace
5. In replace with box type the replacement word
6. Click on replace or replace all buttons.

Select all:- It is used to select all contents of your page.

1. Steps:-click on edit menu
2. Click on select all option 
3. Or press Ctrl+A from the keyboard. 

Time/date: - It is used to insert the date and time in your page.

Format menu

Word-wrap: - It is used to break the line automatically from the end of window.

Font: - It is used for format your text by different font name and size.