If you notice that your Excel files are opening in Notepad, then read this post to learn how to fix the issue. The default behavior of a document or file is to open in the application with which it ...

Want to stop Notepad from opening previously opened files? If you want to start over each time you launch Notepad anew, you can turn off the setting that makes Notepad restore previously opened files ...

When you're creating spreadsheet documents to track employee IDs, forecast sales or compare products, you may want to prepare your data in another program and open the resulting file in Microsoft ...

Windows Notepad has always had a problem displaying line breaks from non-Microsoft operating systems. It is now being updated to be able to handle the end of line characters used in Unix, Linux, and ...

WE ALL HAVE to handle plain text files from time to time, and we know that printing files with the built-in Notepad applet in Windows should be called “pain text.” Fortunately, I’ve found a way to ...

While it is technically possible to open an Excel file in Notepad, this is not a good idea. Excel files are binary files that contain complex formatting and data structures. When you open an Excel ...

Blogger and Microsoft employee Derek Dysart has posted a great tip for automatically dating every new entry in a text file edited with Notepad. Open a blank Notepad file Write .LOG (in uppercase) in ...

Notepad has been around as long as Windows, originally shipping with Windows 1.0 way back in 1985. However, it's taken Microsoft 33 years to fix one of Notepad's most annoying problems: it can't ...

A nagging issue in a staple feature of Microsoft's Windows operating system has finally been fixed. Notepad, the plain text editor that has shipped with every version of Microsoft's desktop operating ...

While editing code in Visual studio or other code editor, use Notepad to hold method declarations. Open Notepad then copy each function declaration into the text editing window. To switch back and ...