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.TOPIC:
Contents
Notepad is a text editor that you can use to edit small
text files, such as your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
The maximum size of text file you can edit is 32K.
Procedures
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Using Help
Adding the Time and Date to Documents
Deleting Text
Finding Text
Formatting Text
Commands
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File Menu Commands
Edit Menu Commands
Search Menu Commands
.TOPIC:
Adding the Time and Date to Documents
To add the time and date to a document:
1. Open the document.
2. Move the insertion point to where you want the time and
date to appear.
Or
Select the text you want the time and date to replace.
3. From the Edit menu, choose Time/Date.
See: Edit Menu Commands
.TOPIC:
Deleting Text
Use the BACKSPACE or DEL key, or the Delete command, when
you want to delete text from the current Notepad document
but you have text on the Clipboard that you want to keep.
To delete one character at a time:
Press BACKSPACE to delete the character to the left of
the insertion point.
Or
Press DEL to delete the character to the right of the
insertion point.
To delete more than one character
1. Select the text you want to delete.
2. Press BACKSPACE or DEL.
Or
Choose Delete from the Edit menu.
To place the text onto the Clipboard, choose Cut from
the Edit menu.
.TOPIC:
Finding Text
You can start a search for specific text at any point in a
Notepad document.
To find specific characters or words:
1. Move the insertion point to where you want the search
to begin.
2. From the Search menu, choose Find.
3. Type the characters or words you want to find.
4. Choose the Find Next button.
5. To find the next occurrence of the text, choose
Find Next from the Search menu or press F3.
See: Search Menu Commands
.TOPIC:
Formatting Text
To format text, do the following.
To do this
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End a line Press ENTER.
Indent a line Press TAB.
Insert a tab Press TAB.
Insert a blank line Move the insertion point to the
beginning or end of a line, and
then press ENTER.
.TOPIC:
File Menu Commands
New
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Opens a new document.
When you choose New, you can save changes to the document
you have been working on.
Open
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Opens a text file.
When you choose Open, you can save changes to the document
you have been working on. The file can be an SDI Notepad
file or any file saved as text-only from another application.
SDI Notepad cannot open a file larger than 32K.
Save
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Saves changes to the document you have been working on.
When you choose Save, the document remains open so you
can continue working on it.
Save As
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Saves a new or existing document. You can name a new
document or save an existing document under a new name.
The original document remains unchanged. When you choose
Save As, the document remains open so you can continue
working on it.
Print
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Prints the document.
Exit
----
Closes the document you have been working on and quits
SDI Notepad. You can save the file before quitting.
.TOPIC:
Edit Menu Commands
Cut
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Deletes text from a document and places it onto the
Clipboard, replacing the previous Clipboard contents.
Copy
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Copies text from a document onto the Clipboard,
leaving the original intact and replacing the previous
Clipboard contents.
Paste
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Pastes a copy of the Clipboard contents at the insertion
point or replaces selected text in a document.
Delete
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Deletes selected text from a document, but does not place
the text onto the Clipboard. Use Delete when you want to
delete text from the current Notepad document but you have
text on the Clipboard that you want to keep.
See: Deleting Text Finding Text Formatting Text
Select All
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Selects all the text in a document at once.
You can copy the selected text onto the Clipboard, delete
it, or perform other editing actions.
Time/Date
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Adds the current time and date to a document.
See: Adding the Time and Date to Documents
Word Wrap
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Wraps text in a document.
.TOPIC:
Search Menu Commands
Find
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Searches forward from the insertion point for characters
or words in a document.
Find Next
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Repeats the last search without opening the Find dialog box.
See: Finding Text
.TOPIC:
Using Help
Selecting a Help link
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With a mouse - click on phrases outlined by two triangles.
With the keyboard - Press TAB or Shift-TAB to select a link.
Press ENTER to jump to that topic.
Scrolling the Help window
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With a mouse - click on the horizontal or vertical scroll bars.
With the keyboard - press the cursor navigation keys.
Closing the Help window
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With a mouse - double click on the window's control box.
With the keyboard - press Ctrl-F4.
Command Buttons
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Use a mouse to click a button or press the letter mentioned
below.
Contents - displays a table of contents for the application's
Help. Press C to select Contents.
Search - opens a dialog box that lists all available Help
topics. Select a topic from the list box and press ENTER.
Press S to select Search.
Back - jumps to the last Help topic viewed.
Press B to select Back.
History - lists the last 20 Help topics viewed. Jump to any
of these topics by selecting from the list box and pressing
ENTER.
Press T to select History.
Copy - Copies the contents of the current Help topic into
an edit area. Select the text you want copied to the
Clipboard and choose Copy. Choosing Copy without selecting
any text in the edit area copies the entire Help topic to
the Clipboard.
Press P to select Copy.