If you have been looking for a comprehensive Windows Notepad guide, you have just found it! This Windows 10 notepad help guide is very long – covering multiple notepad help topics. To easily find the topic you need, I strongly recommend using our ToC “On this page…” to navigate to the topic that interests you. Alternatively, if you are new to notepad, you can read through the whole guide. The estimated reading time is between 25 to 30 minutes. How to Open Notepad (5 Methods)Instead of taking notes on a paper, you can quickly open notepad and make your notes. Here are 5 easy ways to open notepad in Windows 10.Option 1: Open Notepad Via SearchYou can open notepad by entering notepad in the Windows 10 search. Then, from the search results, click Notepad App. Option 2: By Right-Clicking Desktop or Within a FolderYou can also open notepad by clicking an empty space on your desktop or empty space within a folder. Then, point to New and select Text Document. Need more help opening notepad in Windows 10? Here are other ways you can open notepad:Option 3: Open Notepad From the Start MenuClick the Start Menu. Then, locate and expand Windows Accessories.Finally, from the Windows Accessories list, click Notepad. Option 4: Open Notepad Via Run Another way to open notepad is to type it into the Run command. To use this method to open notepad, right-click Start Menu. Then click Run. Finally, on the Run command, type notepad and click OK. Option 5: Open Notepad with CMD or PowerShellYou can also open notepad with command prompt or Powershell. To use this method, open command prompt or powershell. Then, type notepad into either of them and press enter. Save, Save As, and Open Notepad Within NotepadThis section of the guide teaches you how to save or “Save As” in Notepad. Additionally, this section shows you how to open a new notepad within notepad. How to Save, and “Save As” in NotepadThe fastest method to save a notepad is to press the Ctrl and S keys simultaneously. If it is the first time you are saving the text file, it will open the Save As dialogue. Enter a name for the file in the File name field, select a location to save the file. Then, at the bottom right of the dialogue, click Save. After saving the file for the first time, subsequent Ctrl and S keys will save the changes made to the notepad. If you need more help with saving notepad in Windows 10, you can also save by clicking File. Then, selecting Save. So far, in this section I have shown you how to Save notepad with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl +S). You have also seen how to save from the File menu. However, there is additional Windows 10 notepad help for saving a file. For example, if you want to save an already saved text file as another file, click File. Then, select Save As. This command opens the Save As dialogue. On the Save As dialogue, enter a new name for the file. Finally, click Save. How to Open Another Notepad File from NotepadAnother Windows 10 notepad help is to learn how to open an existing notepad file from within notepad. If you are already working with notepad, this is a very quick method to open another saved notepad text file. On the top left of the notepad, click File, and select Open. You can also use the keyboard shortcut for this command – by pressing Ctrl and O keys simultaneously. If you have not yet saved the current text file, you will be prompted to save it first before opening another notepad text file.Finally, on the Open dialogue, navigate to the location you saved the notepad text file, select it and click Open. How to Open a New Notepad File from NotepadAnother way to get help in Windows 10 notepad is to learn how to open a new notepad from within notepad. As you may have noted from the last section, the command to open a new notepad is also in the File menu options. When you click the File menu, to open a new notepad file on the same window, click New. However, to retain the current notepad text file and open a new one on a different window, click New Window. Copy, Paste, Find/Find and Replace, Select AllThis is another Windows 10 notepad get help topic – learning how to copy, paste, select all, and find. Knowledge of these common actions can make using a notepad in Windows 10 fun. How to Copy, Paste, and “Select All”These 3 commands can be achieved with the standard Windows shortcuts. To copy a selected text within notepad, click Ctrl and C keys simultaneously. Additionally, you can paste by pressing Ctrl and P keys simultaneously. Also, pressing Ctrl and A keys simultaneously selects all texts in the open notepad text file. Moreover, you can also see these commands from the Edit menu in the notepad. How to Find/Find and ReplaceAs seen in the last screenshot, the Find/Find and Replace commands are also in the Edit menu. Additionally, the Find/Find and Replace commands can be accessed with keyboard shortcuts. To open the “Find” window, press Ctrl and F keys simultaneously. Furthermore, to open the “Find and Replace” dialogue, press Ctrl and H keys simultaneously. The “Find and Replace” command is extremely useful if you want to replace a word in a notepad text file with thousands of words. Word Wrap, Change Fonts, and Font Style/Size These are yet another set of hot Windows 10 notepad help topics – Word Wrap, and changing Fonts, Font Style, and Font Size. To get the best from Notepad, you need to know how to perform these tasks. How to Enable “Word Wrap”To help you understand the absolute benefit of this feature, look at the notepad texts in this screenshot. Notice that some of the texts are hidden? To view these texts, you have to use the scroll tool at the bottom of the Notepad app. What about moving the hidden texts to the next line so they are all visible? Why not! To achieve this, you enable “Word Wrap” in notepad. To enable “Word Wrap”, click Format in the menu. Then, click Word Wrap. Now, see what happens to the texts – they are all visible without having to scroll!. You would agree that this is an essential Windows 10 notepad help topic! How to Change Fonts, Font Style, and Font SizeAlthough notepad is a very basic note-taking tool, some users may also want to get help with changing fonts, font style, and Font size. This section explains how to perform these useful notepad tasks.Like the “Word Wrap”, the Font setup is also in the Format menu – click Format, then select Font…Within the Font setup screen, you can change the font used to display texts in notepad. Moreover, you can change the Font style and/or the Font Size. The screen has a preview sample. As you make the changes to the Font, Font style, or Font Size, the sample preview displays what the texts will look like. Add/Remove Status Bar, Zoom In, or Zoom OutAnother Windows 10 notepad topic you may need help with is adding a status bar. You may also want to learn how to Zoom in and Zoom out – effectively adjusting the size of the texts in notepad.This section covers these topics. How to Add/Remove Status BarThe notepad status bar is the tiny bar at the bottom. It displays basic information about the open notepad text file. To add or remove this status bar, click the View tab on the menu. Then, click Status Bar. As shown in the screenshot below, Status Bar has a tick before it – meaning that it is currently enabled. If you click it, the tick will be removed and the status bar will be disabled. See the second screenshot below – the status bar is gone!How to Zoom In, Zoom Out, or Reset ZoomThese 3 commands are also in the View tab. To Zoom In (increase the size of the texts in notepad), click View, hover over Zoom, finally, click Zoom In. Each time you click Zoom In, the size of the texts will increase. To keep increasing them, click several times. On the other hand, to Zoom Out (reduce the size of the texts in notepad), click View, hover over Zoom, finally, click Zoom Out.Finally, for this section, if you have played around with Zoom, you may want to reset notepad to the default Zoom. To reset notepad Zoom to default, click View, hover over Zoom, finally, click Restore Default Zoom.Change Page Setup and Print in NotepadAnother exciting Windows 10 notepad help is learning how to change the notepad page setup. Yet, another exciting topic covered in this section is how to print in notepad.How to Change Page SetupThe notepad page setup option is where you modify how the notepad text file prints. To open Page setup, click File, then select Page Setup. On the notepad Page Setup, you can perform the standard print page setup. For example you can change the paper size and the paper source on the printer. You can also set the page to print either as Portrait or Landscape. Finally, you can add a Headers and/or a Footer to the printed page. To learn more about headers and footers in notepad, visit (link opens in a new browser tab). How to Print in NotepadIn notepad, you can open the Print dialogue with the standard Windows Print shortcut. To open the Print dialogue, press Ctrl and P keys simultaneously. Alternatively, you can open the Print dialogue from File -> Print. Create a Log File and Add a Time/Date StampThis Windows 10 notepad help section is targeted at tech readers that create log files with date/time stamps. To create a log file that automatically insert date/time each time you open the text file:Open an empty notepad text file. , This Itechguide teaches you various ways you can get help with notepad in Windows 10. Learn how to Open, Save, Copy & Paste, Print notepad, This article shows you how to open Notepad or create a new text document in Windows 10, and how to use a Notepad file and customize its text format..