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Free Text Editors & Utilities
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What? You're still using Windows Notepad as your default text editor?
Gosh, you don't know what you're missing! Below, we feature the Web's best free text editors, all of which are vastly more feature-laden and useful than Notepad. Any of these programs makes for an excellent replacement for Notepad and can help save you time and make you more productive.
Also, if you're using a large, commercial editor like Microsoft's Word, you'll find that the freeware programs below often have many of the same useful features that the big commercial programs do. While they may not have all the bells & whistles (which you likely rarely use anyway), these programs load much quicker and are much easier on your system's resources.
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 Notespad - An incredibly useful text editing program that replaces Windows' flimsy Notepad text editor. Notespad is a free, full-fledged text editor with tons of wonderful features. You'll wonder how you managed without it! Allows opening of many files simultaneously, bookmarking of favorites, customized colors and fonts, macros, a file editor, lots of right-click goodies and tons more.
- EditPad - Here's a text editing program from Belgium that makes a fine replacement for Windows' crummy notepad. Although there are similar programs that are more feature-laden, EditPad is a solid, crash-free program that loads quickly. It offers filters, text conversions, access to last 16 files opened, MAPI support (for E-mailing text) and more. The only thing lacking with this package is a bookmarking feature, like Notespad offers. Offered in many languages, including Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, etc. "Postcardware." (For Windows.)
- TypeItIn - This freeware utility is a godsend for freebie hunters on the Web. It allows you to quickly enter information into the endless forms that
you must fill out, if you're seeking freebies. TypeItIn lets you define buttons that will type in any information you want
into a Web form. For Windows
- Yeah Write - Powerful and easy to use, Yeah Write may not have all the bells and whistle of MS Word. But you'll find yourself
using this elegant, intuitive word processing program far more than Microsoft's monster.
This program, which comes in a free version, uses a "fill-in-the-blanks" approach to creating documents. Here's a screen shot.
- TxtPrint - This free program does one thing and does it well: it prints out text files and gives you precise control over the output.
The main advantage it has over standard text editors is its ability to divide a page into several rows and columns. Here's a screen shot. For Windows: Available in English and Swedish.
- BBEdit Lite - This is a must-have Mac freeware text editor by Bare Bones Software. A must for Web page authors.
- Super NoteTab - Another great text editor, this program features a tabbed interface that lets you open and edit a virtually unlimited number of documents of any size. There's also an "Editor Clipbook" with templates for HTML tags, smilies, acronyms, etc., as well as management of favorite files and folders.
- Yankee Clipper Plus - This helpful free clipboard utility can save you loads of work if you do a lot of repetitive typing. Yankee Clipper remembers the last 20 text entries to the clipboard. It also can save your clips between sessions. You may also make boilerplate/template files with your favorite clips and much more.
- WordWeb
- This utility could well help improve your writing
skills. WordWeb is a free feature-packed thesaurus/dictionary for Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 that can be used from your word processor or as a stand-alone program. View screen shot
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