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For searching, I normally do not chek in front of "Match Case". I prefer to use a string word with low case to find all related words in files. Then, I get the following error: "cannot find literal string 'xxx". If the target word were in uppder case, it finds if I use the upper ...

>Did you change the colors for the appropriate document class in which >your file lives?

I am not that computer-savvy. Could you please tell me what document class is? That could be my problem. Regards, james

While looking old threads, I found a similar post. The answer was: "Look in the help file for the topic "How to Customize Colors" and then you can change the colour for the item "Selected text (no focus)"". When I tried, it did not work. I tried all kinds of color comib...

I do use search/find a lot. During search, those found target words are very gently highlighted. With my new LCD monitor, it takes forever to locate the highlighted/found words. because highlighted color is too thin. Is there anyway to increase the intensity of the highlighted grey color? James

After upgrading to TextPad 5.0, copy/paste did not work OFTEN. After copying textd from elsewhere and then tried to copy on TextPad. In most cases, it works but sometime pasting does not work. So I must close and reopen TextPad 5 to paste. I think that this is a small bug. I am going back to 4.7 ver...

Whenever a txt file is open, the cursor blinks on the top of the txt file.
Is there any quick way to position at the bottom of the file (or at the end of text?
John

I currently use Textpad 4.7.3. Everything works fine except for this problem. Under Preference >Files, I set the number of recent files on File menu 9 and Number of recent workspaces on File menu to 9. Then, clicked "apply". It works but not all the time. It seems that the number 9 reverts...

I am currently using 4.6 version. In the past I used Homesite to create the original web pages. I recenlty have been revising my HTML pages using Txtpad. Under Clip Libary/HTML tags, there are a bunch of html tags. All worked nicely "except color tags". After highliting one word (to mark u...

Thank you.

That's a mystery. I could not figure out how that line got into the header.
I am the only user for my computer.
Allah might cursed an infidel like me. Who knows?

This is a newbie's question.
Whenever I print txt file, the following header appears:

"What's new about TextPad Support Download Buy Add-ons".

Please advise me how to remove the header or change the header.

Thanks. insitus

Hi Keith, XP does so many things, I find it very hard to figure out everything on XP. > files will be automatically decrypted when opened and encrypted again >when saved. I would like to know about this tip. How about the following lines? files will be automatically decrypted when opened and encrypt...

Since text files are easier to open and use than other document progrmams (e.g., Microsoft Word), I use mainly TextPad for storing confidential and/or proprietary information. I would like to hear from experienced TexPad fans what security or encryption programs are convenient and effective for text...

Since TextPad is a very versatile program, I am tempted to ask another question.

I am wondering whether there is a way to open RTF files on TexPad and vice versa (saving txt files as rtf files). Satoshi

Hi Keith MacDonald,

That worked nicely.
Thank you again.

Satoshi

I tried with a simple text files containg a few paragraphs. Yes. Indeed I could save it as html but it only created one paragraph. Since the saved html does not contain a single tag, I won't call it html file. Do you?
Satoshi