Questions tagged [notepad]
Notepad is a basic text editor included in all versions of Windows since Windows 1.0.
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Creating a console for the new tabbed Notepad
I know it's not what ConEmu was designed for, but I like to have everything together when I'm working on a project... I'm able to ATTACH the New Tabbed Notepad to a ConEmu console by using the "...
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How to convert UTF-8 to ANSI
(note that I posted a previous iteration of my question in stack overflow)
Hello there, I am trying to change multiple files from UTF-8 to ANSI in Notepad. My goal is change them to ANSI like my ...
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Multiple background instances of notepad.exe running
I just opened Task Manager to kill a process and noticed that I have 39 notepad.exe processes running - I do not use Notepad!
They appear to be background processes as in the Details tab there is no ...
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Is it an ANSI or UTF8 file?
I edited the following batch file in notepad. At the bottom-right corner of notepad, it showed "UTF8". I saved the file in ANSI format.
Now, the bottom-right corner of notepad showed "...
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Close all notepad.exe windows
I have a habit of doing the following:
win-key notepad
whenever I have to jot down a quick note.
In previous versions of windows, I would just kill notepad.exe to close all those windows.
Now, in ...
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Why can't Notepad in Window 11 save a .ora file?
I'm having a challenge editing a sqlnet.ora file in my Oracle network/admin folder with the build in notepad.exe in Windows 11
Whenever I try to save the file, Notepad insists on appending .txt to it.
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notepad is displaying txt file contents as weird symbols
I am writing integer values into file from kotlin (kotlin Int type) using something like this
var1BufferedWriter?.write(String.format("%d\n", intvar ) )
var2BufferedWriter?.write(String....
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Windows 11 Notepad scrolling with mouse wheel lags behind
Scrolling vertically in Notepad on Windows 11 has a very noticeable lag when done with the mouse wheel. Scrolling with cursor up/down or page up/down keys is OK. Also dragging the scrollbar with the ...
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Sorting a Wikipedia table by numerical value in a text document?
I've been working on a 3474 line table. Getting the information was easy, capturing the needed information from public online sources. But I came across a problem.
The table is by default sorted ...
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How to insert data from notepad to MS Excel? [closed]
I have text written in Notepad (Every statement is in a new line). I want to put the text in cells in Excel without losing any data. I want the lines to spread in cells rather than pasting them all in ...
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Windows 11: Issues with opening a text file containing accented characters
I'm having some issues in the way in Windows 11 Pro is handling text files. I live in a two language environment - English and French.
For several years I have been using a number of Excel VBA macros ...
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Windows 11 Notepad has wide margin on left and top
After upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 (version 22H2) I noticed that Notepad has quite a wide margin on the left and top (see screenshot below, comparing Windows 7, 10 and 11).
From screenshots ...
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Notepad on Windows 11 not respecting Unicode monospace characters
I'm using box-drawing characters to represent trees. I need other people using Windows to see them so I can assume they all have Notepad installed. But even if I select Consolas as the font, here's ...
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How to copy text (Questions & Answers) from a Windows Notepad to a Microsoft Word template file?
Following are the details:
The Windows Notepad text consists of Questions and corresponding Answers, generated ASR software. All Questions and Answers start in a new line.
Microsoft Word file is a ...
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Find and replace using wildcards without changing the wildcard in Notepad++
I am trying to replace the following pattern
A<marker>
B<marker>
C<marker>
etc. with
<marker>A
<marker>B
<marker>C
A,B,C etc. stand for single, non-alphanumeric ...
