For over 30 years, Notepad has been the fastest and most simple text editor for Windows. Now it's available in Microsoft Store! Instantly view, edit, and search plain text documents as well as source code files. Instantly edit source code and text-based files. You can customize your view by using font options. You can save in multiple encodings, including UTF-8 and UTF-16. Windows 10 version 19541.0 and higher. Notepad only offers the most basic text manipulation functions such as replacing and finding text. Before Windows ME, there weren't many keyboard shortcuts or line-counting features. Windows 2000 introduced shortcuts for common commands such as "New", "Open", or "Save". A status bar with a line counter was also added. This feature is only available if word-wrap has been disabled. Notepad can print files. You can customize the headers, footers, margins and print. You can insert the date, file name, or other information in the headers or footers using different codes.