Notepad+

{{Short description|Text editor for Windows}}

{{distinguish|Notepad++|Windows Notepad}}

Notepad+ is a freeware text editor for Windows operating systems and is intended as a replacement for the Notepad editor installed by default on Windows.{{cite book|pages=[https://archive.org/details/motherofallwindo00leon/page/431 431]|title=The Mother of All Windows 98 Books|author=Woody Leonhard, Barry Simon|year=1999|publisher=Addison-Wesley|isbn=0201433125|url=https://archive.org/details/motherofallwindo00leon/page/431}} It has more formatting features but, like Notepad, works only with plain text.{{cite book|title=SAMS Teach Yourself Windows XP in 21 Days|author=John Mueller|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780672322631/page/178 178]|year=2001|publisher=Sams Publishing|isbn=0672322633|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780672322631/page/178}} It can open text files of any size, and a single instance of the program can have multiple files open simultaneously. It supports dragging and dropping text within a file and between files, and supports multiple fonts and colours.{{cite news|author=Max Green|date=1999-06-10|title=Top Ten Word Processing Tools|work=PC World|url=http://pcworld.com/article/id,11332/article.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226113602/https://www.pcworld.com/article/id,11332/article.html|archive-date=December 26, 2007}}

Notepad+ is available from the company RogSoft. It was developed by Dutch programmer Rogier Meurs. It was first released in 1996.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081219133934/http://www.mypeecee.org/rogsoft/history.html] Originally, it had the advantage of being able to open files of any size, because until 2000 Notepad could not open files larger than 64 KB.{{cite web|author=Mariateresa Thiery|year=2000|title=Word Processors and Tutorials|url=http://trottamedia.com/outernotes/wordprocessors.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010305220437/http://www.trottamedia.com/outernotes/wordprocessors.cfm|archive-date=March 5, 2001|work=OuterNotes|publisher=Trotta Media, Inc.}}

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