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.

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 ...

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.

Anyone know of a way on a win98 machine that I can create an icon that will prompt the user to open a file, and then open it in notepad?I thought for sure there was a command line switch that ...

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

When you're creating spreadsheet documents to track employee IDs, forecast sales or compare products, you may want to prepare your data in another program and open the resulting file in Microsoft ...

Microsoft is busy fleshing out a number of the higher-profile default apps in Windows 11, and Notepad is the latest application to get some attention with the addition of a very useful feature.