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Old 07-14-2017, 08:07 PM   #30312
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
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.


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
I'd was indeed speaking of the official Microsoft Word for iOS and Android. Other apps that open and edit word docs may well also open plain text files, but not MS Word for iOS and Android, at least not the last time I checked. And I have removed MS Word from my Android phone for exactly the reason you mentioned: it's huge. It's a bloated tic of a program that slows down my entire phone. It plays nicer on my iPad.

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