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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 01, 2009
- Total Downloads: 340,610
- Downloads last week: 423
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 330 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Once you explore the power of NoteTab Light, you may find this text editor beautiful despite its hectic interface. At its core, NoteTab Light is to Windows' Notepad as an iPhone is to a rotary phone. NoteTab Light incorporates top-level tabs similar to most Web browsers, so that you can manage several different projects at once, and it can automatically replace Notepad so that Notepad's icons open NoteTab instead--although not in Windows Vista.
However, it's more than a mere replacement. The left column displays a list of commands, called Clips, that do anything from inserting bits of text to generating code. Each library, the roster of which appears as tabs at the bottom of the screen, contains its own set of clips. The FTP library, for example, lets you create server profiles, connect, upload and download files, and issue various commands. The HTML library auto-completes HTML tags. The publisher's site offers many user-created libraries, or you can make your own. You can create your own clips by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2.
Several of the clips, including the Tidy HTML clip and the TopStyle library, require secondary freeware apps to support them, but NoteTab will direct you to their Web pages if it finds them missing. NoteTab Light isn't a tool for casual users, but power users and programmers should find plenty to love.
Publisher's description
From Fookes Software :NoteTab Light is a versatile free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Move quickly around stacks of large files with a simple tabbed interface and format your text to your heart's content. Perform system-wide search and replacements. Strip HTML tags. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work. Avoid tedious cut-and-paste operations - save text clips automatically in Paste Board files. Make the most of NoteTab's options to suit your workstyle.
Version 6.1 adds the Code Page submenu to the Tab-bar shortcut menu, and new "Format-Search Limit" setting on Advanced tab in Options dialog box and updates Export dialog box with UTF-8 and Unicode options.
What's new in this version:
Version 6.1 adds the Code Page submenu to the Tab-bar shortcut menu, and new "Format-Search Limit" setting on Advanced tab in Options dialog box and updates Export dialog box with UTF-8 and Unicode options.
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User reviews of NoteTab Light 6.1
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 330 votes
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.1
"I've used it over 5 years. Fast and powerful."
Pros: Love the RegEx support. You can write or find macros.
Cons: Can't record macros. Doesn't do color-coding or syntax checking for computer programming languages.
Summary: A handy, powerful and fast general-purpose text editor. You can program it to do lots of things, but you don't have to program it to use it for most purposes.
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.1
"Its fast, run almost no problem in Win2K, XP and W2003"
Pros: Its is very powerful with tab editors, and can handle large text as well. I have been using it almost 10 years.
Cons: I dont think I have one.
Summary: IMO, This is the best text editor, and it supports HTML format as well. Although I am using it for text editing, or opening txt files.
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.1
"Almost as good as microsoft word"
Pros: Better than notepad
Cons: Nothing, I like all of it.
Summary: Excellent text editor, I use it for all my texts.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: NoteTab Light 6.1
Pros: Fast, functional, powerful, easy to use...and FREE!!!
Cons: What cons???
Summary: This is what Microsoft should have made with thier version of "Notepad". Even if you don't do any coding, the easy of use and feature set makes this a must have with every new install.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: NoteTab Light 6.1
"It is much better than Notepad"
Pros: I like everything about it, so far.
Cons: Nothing; only my lack of time to become an expert.
Summary: It is a well thought out program that I find pleasurable to use.
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