Copy and Paste in Notepad?

Question

I'm trying to copy and paste someone's colorful Notepad page to my own Notepad page why isn't it working? All I get is the original text. Shouldn't this work or what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Notepad is known as a Text Editor not a Rich Text Editor.

The difference is that a text editor can only hold plain-text, no hyperlinks, nothing.

Although you may open Format Menu and choose Font and customize the look and feel, it is still stored in the file as plain text.

If you open a Rich Text in Notepad, it would contain a lot of arguements that specify the way the text looks and behaves, and won't be able to read a thing out of it.

Try opening Microsoft Word, type in a 4-5 word senstense, lets say, "This is a Test", and change the colors of each word. then open the save dialog and choose for file type, "Rich Text Format", then open this file in Notepad and see how it would look like...

Answer 2

You can do that only on Microsoft Word, notepad only holds text

Answer 3

Notepad is designed for ASCII only, no graphics. Suggest using Wordpad.exe, or Microsoft Word (if you have it installed), or downloading OOo (http://www.openoffice.org/) a free office suite.

Answer 4

notepad only uses ascii text. to get what you want open windows wordpad or word

Answer 5

There is, but it would take a lot longer to write the code than to just import or copy./paste the files, unless you have dozens of files, all with exactly the same format.

Answer 6

nodepad is not designed for that . you can try Wordpad or Ms Word( if it's installed ).