You can make Text files open directly in Notepad++ instead of Notepad in Windows 11/10. Learn how to make Notepad++ as the default Text Editor.

Start with text editing software like Windows' built-in Notepad app, or other similar third-party apps like Notepad++. Right-click on the DAT file you want to open and select Open with from the ...

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.

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.

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