Windows Notepad is perhaps the simplest piece of software on your computer. You don’t expect it to do anything else other than to create and edit short passages of plain text. Well, here are a few capabilities of Notepad, that you may not know.
1. Using Notepad as a log book
Open Notepad, write “.LOG” (without quotes) on the top, save the file and close it. Open the file again, and you will find the current date and time on it. Add text and save and close again. Every time you open it, it will have a timestamp. Use it to make your daily notes, a diary, etc. Alternatively you can press F5 to get the current date and time.
2. Changing Header and Footer
Ever printed the little text you wrote in Notepad? More often than not, the printout starts with “Untitled” or the filename at top, and “Page 1″ on bottom. Want to get rid of it, or change it? Click on File, Page Setup. Get rid of the characters in Header and Footer boxes, and write what you want as Header and Footer. Use the following codes.
&l Left-align the characters that follow
&c Center the characters that follow
&r Right-align the characters that follow
&d Print the current date
&t Print the current time
&f Print the name of the document
&p Print the page number
3. Custom fonts in Notepad
Yes, you can change fonts in Notepad too. click on Format, Font. Only problem, all text will appear in same font.
