List of 16 Freeware Notepad Alternative

Despites of Notepad's drawbacks, it is still used by most computer users. But for those who want a more featured Notepad and that can fulfil Notepad's limitations, here is the list of 16 freeware programs that can be use as an alternative to the much simpler Windows built-in Notepad.

1. NuvoPad - is an easy to use and advanced text editor for the average novice users as well as more advanced users. It is designed to replace both Notepad and Wordpad as the standard editor. Currently it supports editing of text, rich-text, log, info and most other formats. Currently Word format documents are not supported.

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2. BDV Notepad - It is comfortable text editor, Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge! Program can work with files of any size, supports shortcuts, multilevel Undo/Redo, autosaving, URL-autodetection and start. It has customizable multilanguage interface, improved printing engine and many additional opportunities.

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3. NoteTab Light - is the ultimate free Notepad replacement and a capable HTML editor. A slimmer version of the award-winning NoteTab Pro, this slick application makes text editing a breeze. Move quickly around a stack of large files with a simple tabbed interface. Format your text to your heart's content. Write with the font of your choice, fixed-width or proportional.

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4. 2xEditor - is a lightweight Notepad replacement. The key objective is efficient everyday use, with keyboard shortcuts for most commands and persistence of all program state in the registry. It features powerful search and replace commands, Hex and RTF viewer, font/color selection plus loads of handy bits for programmers (brace matching, autoIndent). The newest AutoText feature makes inserting HTML open/closing tags a breeze. And all that in a downloadable size of just 155KB

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5. EditPad Lite - is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. EditPad Lite works with Windows NT4, 98, 2000, ME, XP and Vista. You can open as many files in EditPad at a time as you want and they'll just open in a new tab like the modern browsers today. No hassle with heaps of overlapping windows.

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6. Notepad2 - a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.

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7. NotePad+ - is a fully 32-bit replacement for the standard Windows 95/NT 4.0 Notepad. It has many improvements over standard Notepad. To set as the default Windows notepad, click on Options Set as Default, and edit your text files in style.

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8. BiliPad - is a free and useful notepad replacement. Has all the features needed to do most editing and reading tasks. It remembers settings (fonts, window size and position) since last session. It can choose any font from installed on your computer, both fixed and proportional. It has Page Setup, where you can set headers and footers for printing. It sure has Word Wrap, Find, Find and Replace commands.

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9. Pad - is an editor and viewer to replace the Windows Notepad and your image viewer. It supports such image formats as ANI, BMP, GIF (including animated), ICO, JPEG, WMF, and EMF; and text formats such as BAT, HTML, TXT, and RTF. Pad is able to open any number of large (up to 2GB) files at once and switch easily between documents with a tab bar, and includes a Windows Explorer-like file browser and a customizable extra toolbar.

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10. Metapad - is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more.

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11. ENotas - is a practical, free, useful and functional text editor , similar to the Notepad of Windows but with added improvements. It has a very pleasant interface that makes the work more coway.

• Multile archives can be opened.
• There is no size limit.
• Toolbar skins..
• Text search and replacement
• Statusbar with information of lines, columns etc.
• Is only a executable one, (.EXE)
• Text connection to automatic URL.
• Define a alarm reminder for one hour determined of the day.
• Integration with Windows.

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12. XPad Text Editor - is a powerful and simple text editor, with multiple clipboard and automatic copy selection to clipboard feature; links, e-mail and file path managing, capable of opening Windows, Linux and Apple text file formats. Supports UTF-8 encoding. Much more complete than the Windows Notepad, so it's a good replacement for this.

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13. DocPad - is a superior alternative to Notepad. Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it has many advantages: 10-level undo, alphabetization, block indent/unindent, bookmark, case conversion, encoding conversion, file history, jump to line, jump to offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, spell checking, statistics, variable pitch font, and much more. It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.

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14. Alot Notes - It can organize you notes. Two modes of Tree View (Internet Explorer like or open/close buttons), auto-save, choice of always on top tab on screen edge or system tray icon.

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15. PRONotePad - is an easy text editor, with quick tools, to replace the old notepad, and Tabs for multiple files. PRONotePad is very simple to install, just rewrite the old notepad, and now you'll have a lot of better tools for quick text editing.

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16. NoteKeeper - Easily manage your documents, notes and Rich Text (RTF) files. NoteKeeper is a powerful, easy-to-use replacement for the standard MS Notepad. You will have no trouble with the simple user-friendly interface. The most important feature is that Notekeeper brings the ability to edit Rich Text Format (RTF) files as well as any text files. That means that you can now have your text documents including several different fonts and pictures, you can also embed files into a NoteKeeper RTF file.

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