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Notepad replacement for Windows Vista

#1 User is offline   Cristy13 

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Posted 05 October 2009 - 12:21 AM

I have seen a tutorial entitled "How to replace Windows Notepad with a better Notepad", but it seems to be only for Windows XP or 2000. Is there anything about replacing the notepad in Vista? I don't like the notepad I have for various reasons: no background choices, no text size or color choices, etc. I use Notepad for writing letters, printing my own recipes, and other things that I would like to be able to do with a little more creativity.


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Posted 26 November 2009 - 02:34 PM

I would suggest Notepad++ : http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
Also another very good editor AbiWord : http://www.abisource.com/

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Posted 26 November 2009 - 07:04 PM

One i've been quite happy with:
http://liquidninja.com/metapad/
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Posted 27 November 2009 - 03:47 AM

I use Notepad++ for text editing and AbiWord for documents editing. I find both to be superior products (and free!)
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