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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I've always loved Notepad if for no other reason than it doesn't do formatting beyond allowing global changes in font and don't sizes. It comes in quite handy when copying formatted material when you want the information but not the decorations and links. Sure, Word offers a choice when pasting to keep the source our destination formatting, but that's an additional hoop to jump through that isn't present in Notepad.
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<shrug> Notepad is a plain text editor. Plain ASCII text doesn't
do decorations, links, and the like.
For the vast majority of what I do, a plain text editor is fine. I simply replace Notepad with something else. There are
many Notepad replacements out there. The one I use is an open source product called
Notepad2-mod It's a fork of an open source product called Notepad2 by Florian Balmer. Notepad2 uses the Scintilla edit control, and offers syntax highlighting for an assortment of programming languages, code folding, and an assortment of other features. It can be set via a registry hack to replace standard Windows Notepad, and I do so. It invokes as close to instantly as makes no difference.
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Unfortunately, the Word apps for iOS and Android don't open Notepad files, so if I want to open a file with one of my mobile Word apps, it can't be in plain text format. At least, they didn't open those type files last time I checked.
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Which apps are you running? On my Android tablet, I run a freeware office suite called
WPS Office+PDF from a Chinese vendor. (Ad supported, but so far they are unobtrusive and don't get in my way.) It handles Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, Power Point presentations and PDF files (though I use something else for PDFs and avoid PowerPoint like the plague.) It opened plain text files the last I looked, but I have several dedicated plain text editors installed as well. My usual choice fort plain text is
920 Editor, another open source product.
MS does have freeware official Word and Excel apps for Android. I looked at them and they technically run, but are
big and assume you have a fast and powerful device.
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Dennis