File Setup To build a CSV file to open in Microsoft Excel, you'll need to decide how many columns you'll use in Microsoft Excel for the categories of information you're preparing in Notepad.

If your Excel files are opening in Notepad on Windows PC, here's how you can reset the settings to make .xls, .xlsx, etc files open in Excel.

List of freeware to encrypt Notepad text files in Windows. Encrypt Notepad file and secure and protect it using Safe Pad, Secret Pad & Encrypted Notepad.

Using a plug-in for the popular Windows text editor, Notepad++, you can easily encrypt selected text and entire text files.

And Notepad defaults to margin settings that don’t accommodate a typical 80-column text file. If you want a quick hard copy of your plain text files, the formatting change may distract from ...

Anyone know of a way on a win98 machine that I can create an icon that will prompt the user to open a file, and then open it in notepad?I thought for sure there was a command line switch that ...

Microsoft decided to fix one of Notepad's longest running problems: garbled text files from other operating systems.

Open Notepad, click on the "DeskPins" icon on the Taskbar and then click anywhere within the Notepad window to keep it on top. Go to Dropbox.com and download the Always On Top ZIP file.