Microsoft Notepad

Description

Microsoft Notepad is a simple text editor included with Microsoft Windows. Although the program has a few limitations, it can still be useful in many contexts to view and edit plain text files.

Notepad is a simple text editor that only offers basic formatting features. Notepad doesn't offer the same features as Microsoft Word, such page formatting support or graphics. You can word wrap your text and select the font, style and size of your text. Notepad supports many text encoding options, including Unicode and UTF-8, big-endian Unicode and ANSI.

Nobody will try to boast about Notepad's text editing features. Yet, the program is still useful in many contexts, such as when taking notes, when viewing text files, and when making edits to source code files. Notepad is a widely-used text editor.

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