
If you were to try to save this as is, you'll get a message that if you save it as plain text, all the formatting would be lost. Here, a bit of text from our Romanian site 7 Tutoriale has been cut and pasted into Notepad. You can also use Save As to change the encoding of your file to match a particular character set. When it comes time to save your work, choose Save As, and select All Files from the list of choices. Make sure that Word Wrap is turned on (we'll discuss this in just a minute) and type your HTML code the way you would type plain text. However, you can also use Notepad to create HTML files. txt extension with Notepad, so double clicking on it automatically opens it in Notepad, and that is the default format (plain text) for the files that you save.

By default, Windows associates any file with a. You do have some options you might not be familiar with when you use the Save Ascommand. You should already be familiar with these commands, since they are the same in nearly every Windows application. As you can see, many of these commands have keyboard shortcuts as well. Your choices are New, Open, Save, Save As, Page Setup and Print. If you try to paste graphics into it, it won't work. Everything should be reassuringly familiar. Let's take a look at the menus, to see what you can do. At the top of the window you'll see menus for File, Edit, Format, View and Help.

Nothing more is needed, since Notepad has a limited set of options. When Notepad opens, in either operating system, you'll see this no-frills screen. To find Notepad in Windows 8.1, either type notepad on the Start screen, or bring up the charms and type into the search box. In Windows 7, Notepad is found in the Accessories folder in the Start Menu.īut there's no need to navigate to that folder when you can just type notepad into the Start Menu search box.

The only difference is in how you open the application in each operating system. NOTE: Notepad is essentially the same in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, so most of the illustrations in this article will be from Windows 8.1. Let's take a new look at this old desktop app. If you haven't used Notepad much, you may be surprised by how easy it is to use. It's great for writing relatively short documents that you want to save as plain text, but that's not all you can do with it. Notepad is a very basic text editor that's been part of Windows for a very long time.
