{"id":600,"date":"2011-03-10T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=600"},"modified":"2012-02-25T06:45:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T11:45:34","slug":"fun-with-windows-notepad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/fun-with-windows-notepad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Windows Notepad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did \t\tyou know you actually have quite a bit of control when it comes to \t\tprinting from notepad? Once you learn these simple tricks, you can print \t\tmany things from notepad instead of opening a resource hungry word \t\tprocessor!<\/p>\n

Open Notepad. Go to File, Page Setup. (See Screenshot 1 at bottom) Click the arrow \t\tbeside “Size” so can select the paper size that you will be working with \t\tand printing to, i.e., index card, letter, legal size, borderless, \t\tenvelope, etc. There are actually over 50 choices here! (See screenshot \t\t2)<\/p>\n

Another option in this window is portrait or landscape, and margins.<\/p>\n

Below this is yet another option for header and footer. These are in \t\tsyntax so be sure you copy them exactly! (Syntax just means a \t\tcombination of characters that do something)<\/p>\n

By default you will see:<\/p>\n

Header &f (header is top of page)
\nFooter Page &p (footer is bottom of page)<\/p>\n

&f means “untitled” so your printed notepad document will say “untitled” \t\tin the header. If you want to give your printed page a title, put \t\twhatever you want here, such as Thundercloud’s Rantings. This is saved \t\tas are all syntaxes you type in, so every time you print something it \t\twill show the same title, etc. You can change it anytime you want \t\tthough!<\/p>\n

&p means show page number, so if you want don’t want page numbers in \t\tyour notepad printouts just remove the syntax code. You could remove the \t\tword “page” and just type &p and it will just show numbers. Or, if you \t\twould rather your page numbers show at the top, just type Page &p in the \t\t“Header” text box.<\/p>\n

Here are some more syntaxes you can work with; where ever you put them \t\tis where they will appear in your printed document.<\/p>\n

&d will display the date in the header or footer (where ever you decide \t\tto put it, or both if you want!). Date will look like this: Thursday, \t\tAugust 14, 2009<\/p>\n

&t will display your computer time. Again, decide if you want it in the \t\theader or footer, or if you really like to display time in your printed \t\tdocument, put it in both. Time shows as 9:15:24 PM for example.<\/p>\n

You can add a combination of the syntaxes in the header and footer text \t\tboxes too! Just separate them by a space. If using centering\/left\/right \t\tsyntaxes, put them in front of the syntax you want them to apply to.<\/p>\n

&l = left
\n&c = center
\n&r = right<\/p>\n

Here is an example: If you put &l &d &c &t &r &p, in the “header” your \t\tprinted page will have the date printed on the left (&l &d), the time \t\tcentered (&c &t) and a page number to the right (&r &p).<\/p>\n

Kinda cluttered though, so try this –<\/p>\n

in header put &c My Notes
\nin footer put &c &d<\/p>\n

Now, every time you print out something from notepad, it will have the \t\ttitle “My Notes” centered at the top, and full date centered at the \t\tbottom of each page.<\/p>\n

Go ahead, try it and find what works best for you. Remember! Each time \t\tyou print out a notepad document, the syntaxes you typed in will be \t\tsaved and will apply to all future notepad printouts until you change \t\tthem!<\/p>\n

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Here are some screen shots to give you an \t\tidea of the number of options Notepad gives you:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Did you know you actually have quite a bit of control when it comes to printing from notepad? Once you learn these simple tricks, you can print many things from notepad instead of opening a resource hungry word processor! Open Notepad. Go to File, Page Setup. (See Screenshot 1 at bottom) Click the arrow beside “Size” so can\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[376,378,375,380,377,379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}