Description
A lightweight plain-text editor for creating and editing unformatted text files.
Notepad is a basic text editor included with Microsoft Windows that provides simple tools for viewing, creating, and editing plain-text documents. It is designed for unformatted text and does not support rich-text features such as fonts, styles, or embedded media. Common uses include quick note-taking, editing configuration files, writing or reviewing source code in a pinch, and viewing log files. Notepad supports standard text operations (such as search, replace, and word wrap), works with common text encodings (including Unicode), and is tightly integrated with the Windows desktop environment for opening and saving text files.
It has historically served as the default editor for plain-text files on Windows and is often used for lightweight tasks where a full-featured word processor or code editor is unnecessary.
