To make Notepad files always open in a new or separate window in Windows 11, open Notepad setting and change the 'Opening files' option.

If your Excel files are opening in Notepad on Windows PC, here's how you can reset the settings to make .xls, .xlsx, etc files open in Excel.

For more than three decades Notepad couldn't display all text files correctly. Now thanks to a new update, it can finally will. Previously, Notepad wasn't able to find the correct line endings.

While it is technically possible to open an Excel file in Notepad, this is not a good idea. Excel files are binary files that contain complex formatting and data structures. When you open an Excel ...

Microsoft decided to fix one of Notepad's longest running problems: garbled text files from other operating systems.

I need to open up 4 text files at a time all with the same name but with different extensions. I've created a very simple batch file to take care of this using notepad, but it will only open up ...

Now browse for, locate and select Notepad.exe. Click on “Open,” “Next” and then “Finish.” You have now made it possible to access Notepad from your SendTo Menu and to read those text-based files. — ...

Notepad is also helpful for stripping text formatting when you copy content from Web pages into your own business files. To open Notepad quickly, you can create a shortcut for it on your desktop.

File Setup To build a CSV file to open in Microsoft Excel, you'll need to decide how many columns you'll use in Microsoft Excel for the categories of information you're preparing in Notepad.