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- Price: Free to try (Nag screen); $29.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: July 20, 2004
- Total Downloads: 1,101,220
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- Average user rating: stars out of 61 votes
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Publisher's description
From Helios Software Solutions :TextPad is a full-featured text editor offering a spelling checker, macros, and powerful formatting and file-storage options. TextPad has been implemented according to the Windows XP user interface guidelines, so great attention has been paid to making it easy for both beginners and experienced users. In-context help is available for all commands, and in-context menus pop up with the right mouse button. The Windows multiple-document interface allows multiple files to be edited simultaneously, with up to two views on each file. Text can be dragged and dropped among files.
In addition to using the usual cut-and-paste capabilities, you can correct the most common typing errors with commands to change case, and you can transpose words, characters, and lines. Other commands let you indent blocks of text, split or join lines, and insert whole files. Any change can be undone or redone, right back to the first change made. Visible bookmarks can be put on lines, and edit commands can be applied to lines with bookmarks.
Frequently used combinations of commands can be saved as keystroke macros, and the spelling checker has dictionaries for 10 languages. It also has a customizable tools menu, and integral file-compare and -search commands, with hypertext jumps from the matched text to the corresponding line in the source file (ideal for integrating compilers).
What's new in this version:
Enhancements:- WildEdit is automatically added to the Tools menu, if it has been installed.
- New German Spelling Reform (Die Neue Rechtschreibung) dictionary.
- New spell checker dictionary for Canadian English.
- Updated spell checker dictionaries for American and British English, Danish, German, Italian and Spanish.
- If a line was increased in length, then split between the first and second characters, the first of the split li... see all new features
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User reviews of TextPad 4.7.3
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 61 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: TextPad 4.7.3
Pros: I've been using TextPad for nearly a decade. It's a well-crafted text editor that's extremely simple to use and very powerful.
Cons: It lacks some of the nicer amentities of competing products, such as the ability to open/edit a file via FTP.
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5 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: TextPad 4.7.3
Pros: not bad !
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: TextPad 4.7.3
Pros: Good for newbies to programming and for people who prefer old-fashioned ways
Cons: Everybody knows it can be improved
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Version: TextPad 4.7.3
Pros: I use it daily and I couldn't do without ! Excellent software.
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3 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: TextPad 4.7.3
"MS Word + NotePad = Good text editor = Textpad 4.7.3"
Pros: Now this version got Spell checking capabilities that were missing before.
Overall very good application for those who work intensively with text formatting and editing.
I am using it almost for 6 months now for FREE and had no much issues.
Now it�s much better than MS Word.
Cons: Nothing for a program which is for text editing.
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