You can make Text files open directly in Notepad++ instead of Notepad in Windows 11/10. Learn how to make Notepad++ as the default Text Editor.

File Setup To build a CSV file to open in Microsoft Excel, you'll need to decide how many columns you'll use in Microsoft Excel for the categories of information you're preparing in Notepad.

Anyone know of a way on a win98 machine that I can create an icon that will prompt the user to open a file, and then open it in notepad?I thought for sure there was a command line switch that ...

In reality, though, when you double-click on it, it would instead open in Notepad because its true, but not visible, extension is actually .txt, which corresponds to a text file.

And Notepad defaults to margin settings that don’t accommodate a typical 80-column text file. If you want a quick hard copy of your plain text files, the formatting change may distract from ...