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Hi again,

Duh!

It finally occurred to me to look in the Help section... and there was the answer I needed:-

Place the cursor where you want to add the ANSI character, open the Clip Library and DOUBLE click on the desired ANSI character.

So simple!

Hi,

If I open a .txt file in TextPad 8.4.0 and then open the ANSI Characters, the latter appears over the text. So that if I want to add one of the ANSI characters to the text, I cannot.

This was not the case in TextPad 4.7 which I used before upgrading to 8.4.0.

Is there some way to prevent this ...

Thanks, Ken.

I've finally managed to get my old macros to work in v.7.4 by moving them to the correct folder.

Thank you ak47wong.

That did it! Saved me a lot of trouble remaking all my macros...

Still unable to use my own macros in TextPad 7.

I first used 'Configure - Preferences - Macros' to 'Add' the default macros in 'Macros available' to 'Macros on menu', which resulted in them appearing in the folder C:\Program Files\TextPad 7\Samples.

Then I copied all my own .TPM macro files from ...

I have copied over the USERS folder from v.4.7 to my new installation of v.7.4 but no macros appear under the menu item 'Macros'.

I have also copied the contents of this USER folder to the Samples folder, as mentioned in the Help menu, but still no macros appear under 'Macros'.

Does v.7.4 use a ...

One more point (Perhaps I should start a new Subject?): I have copied over the USERS folder from v.4.7 to my new installation of v.7.4 but no macros appear under the menu item 'Macros'.

Does v.7.4 use a different method of storing/using macros?

Is there a way of using my macros in v.7.4 - or do I ...

I have now downloaded and installed TextPad 7-64 bit and, of course, it works perfectly!

My original copy of TextPad was v. 4.0.7.3 which is dated 2004 and being a 32-bit version was not working properly under Windows 64-bit.
Thanks for your help.

TextPad is installed in "C:\Program Files (x86)\TextPad 4\TextPad.exe".

There is no "%AppData%\Helios\TextPad\7"...

I'll try uninstalling it and re-installing & see if it creates a folder "Helios" in AppData.

Control panel unable to uninstall TextPad 4.7: "Error 1402.Could not open key: HKEY ...

Cannot find ConfigState.xml anywhere on my C: Drive.

Where should it be?

Yes. In spite of clicking 'Apply', then 'OK'.

What is worse is that NO recent files appear on the File menu after closing and reopening TextPad.

I am finding that 'Number of recent files on File menu' setting is not sticking from one opening of TextPad to another. In fact, NO recent files are appearing at all!

Is there some way of correcting this?

Hi Ben,

Well, I've been using Process Explorer to search for processes other than TextPad that have handles on the files I have open in TextPad. The only process having a handle on these files is "System".

So I tried using the program to search for handles on the folder containing the above files ...

> Answering once would be enough ... ;-)

Sorry about that - I have some trouble with the forum appearing not to 'submit' the posting...

> Did you install or update a virus checker roundabout the time the problem started? <

No. My virus checker is TrendMicro's PC Cillin. It updates itself ...

Hi Ben,

> Sysinternals (www.sysinternals.com) <

Thanks. I'll get it and see what it says...

Regards,

MarkN