Sorry Phil, I thought I'd spelt that out.
I want a Notepad with BOLD, ITALIC and UNDERLINE.
(tho at a pinch, I could do without italic)

Mary's response was interesting - use Outlook Express.  Very lateral
thinking, Mary.  You're right, it has all those facilities.

However, for me, OE is a bit like Word and Wordpad - a little too complex
and clever. Plus it has the proprietary coding format that makes backing up
and copying such a nightmare.

No, Notepad would be ideal if it just had a few more frills. There must be
problems associated with writing these facilities into text editors,
otherwise I'm sure all the Notepad clones would have them.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Gagne" Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Boldly go with notepad


> I too, would like an answer to this one.  I have heard of one clone called
> "Metapad" but I gave that up quickly as I experienced the same problems
you
> did.  What I'm sure we'd all be interested in though is what types of
> features you are looking for in a notepad clone?
>
> Phil.

> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm looking for a simple notepad clone to run in W98SE that has BOLD,
> ITALIC
> > and UNDERLINE facilities.
> >
> > I have Word, of course, but it's far too clever for my current needs.
And
> I
> > suppose Wordpad's an option, but that's a bit over-educated, too.
> >
> > I've been using EditPad Lite for several years now, just renaming it
> > 'Notepad.exe' and a copy as '_notepad.exe' (which puts it at the head of
> the
> > 'Open With' list, so you don't have to scroll down the list to find it),
> but
> > though this little app is pretty effective, and has all kinds of
features,
> > it doesn't have the ones I want.
> >
> > I think I've tried almost every text editor available but perhaps I've
> > missed one.  Even just BOLD and UNDERLINE would do.  Does anyone know of
> > such an animal?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Ian Porter
> > Computer Guys Inc.
> > Arrowtown
> > New Zealand
> > [log in to unmask]

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