To make Notepad files always open in a new or separate window in Windows 11, open Notepad setting and change the 'Opening files' option.

If your Excel files are opening in Notepad on Windows PC, here's how you can reset the settings to make .xls, .xlsx, etc files open in Excel.

While it is technically possible to open an Excel file in Notepad, this is not a good idea. Excel files are binary files that contain complex formatting and data structures. When you open an Excel ...

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 ...

For more than three decades Notepad couldn't display all text files correctly. Now thanks to a new update, it can finally will. Previously, Notepad wasn't able to find the correct line endings.

I need to open up 4 text files at a time all with the same name but with different extensions. I've created a very simple batch file to take care of this using notepad, but it will only open up ...

Click the "Text Document" option to create a new Notepad document with the file name of "Untitled.txt." Double-click on the text file to open in Notepad. Type your C code into the blank Notepad page.

Microsoft decided to fix one of Notepad's longest running problems: garbled text files from other operating systems.

Mac: Unclutter is a handy little multi-purpose utility that includes a simple clipboard manager, notes app, and file storage area all packed into a single app.