Almost every menu item, button, and input field in the program offers hint information. Whenever you highlight a menu item or place the mouse cursor over a dialog box element, its hint text is displayed in the program's status bar
Use the command "Replace MS Notepad" under the Help menu if you want to use NoteTab instead of Notepad
Click with the right mouse button on almost any part of the editor and a context sensitive shortcut menu will pop up
[15]The "Editor Clipbook" can save you much time if you often reuse the same bits of text. Save any kind of text in it, from a single character to thousands of lines.
[15]To paste a Clip into your document, just drag-and-drop it from the Clipbook window into your document or double-click on the Clip's title
[15]The Clipbook can be used as a shorthand glossary. Just type enough text to match the title of a Clipbook item and hit the F2 key to insert its content in your document
[20]If you often reopen the same document, you can save a lot of time by adding it to the Favorites list. Then, next time you want to open it, just select it from the Favorites menu
[52]Use Outline documents to organize your notes
[20]You can also save directories (folders) in the Favorites list
You can drag document tabs with the mouse to reorder them
Display two documents side-by-side with the "Document | Second Window" menu command
Split lines can be joined into a single paragraph by using the submenu command "Modify | Lines | Join Lines"
You can sort lines by using the submenu command "Modify | Lines | Sort"
[15]Use the "Tools | Expand Text" feature to reduce typing and speed up writing
[62]If your text contains a hyperlink or WWW link, you can open it in your favorite web browser by holding down the Ctrl key while you double-click on the link with the mouse
[32]You can find out how often a particular word is used in a document or selected text by choosing the Text Statistics command in the Tools menu
[23]Each document can have a different font, tab, word wrap, etc. settings. Use the Document Properties dialog box to change the settings for the current document.>>These settings are remembered when you reopen the document.
You can split a word-wrapped paragraph into individual lines by using the submenu command "Modify | Lines | Split Lines"
[31]The toolbar is fully customizable. You can choose to have flat or regular buttons, with or without a caption, hide/show and reorder them any way you like, wrap buttons, etc.
You can easily remove all HTML tags from a document or selected text by choosing the "Strip HTML tags" command in the Modify menu
[39]A document can be configured to capture text that is cut or copied to the Windows Clipboard from any application. Choose "Document | Use as Paste Board" to enable this behavior
[19]When the Quick List displays Favorites items or the contents of a directory, you can drag the file names into your HTML documents to create links
[52]Pressing PageDown/PageUp in an Outline document will jump to the next/previous topic once the cursor reaches the end/start of a topic's content
You can create web pages from Outline documents, complete with table of contents and anchor hyperlinks, by choosing the menu command "Modify | Document to HTML | With Paragraph Tags"
[62]You can create hyperlinks to connect any type of document, as well as Outline headings or text criteria
[60]You can easily calculate the value of mathematical expressions (with functions like SIN, LN, SQRT) by selecting them and pressing Ctrl+E
[89]You can create and use templates to save time in creating many common types of documents
[62]Hyperlinks can be Internet links, file names, Outline headings, lines numbers, programs, and even text search criteria
Use the Block submenu under the Modify menu to cut/copy/paste/delete blocks (columns) of text
Convert any text file into a web page by using one of the "Modify | Document to HTML" commands
[37]Use the Clipbook to create batch commands for file management tasks
[37]Create Clipbook scripts to search and replace multiple text criteria
[52]Manage your FAQ lists in Outline documents. Use the "Modify | Document to HTML" menu command to convert the list to a web page
Hold the Ctrl key down if you want to open a link or document in a new web browser window when you activate the browser from NoteTab