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Does TextPad support the concept of 'tabs' such as Excel whereby ONE file contains multiple, separate windows one can edit? This is different from having multiple documents shown in the left side document window. I would like to open a single WINDOWS file and have multiple tabs that are delineated at the bottom of the edit window available.

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AndrewTP wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 1:34 pmDoes TextPad support TABS (multiple windows in a single file)

Those aren't tabs - for Excel you got one Excel file (which is also called workbook) with one or many sheets. The sheets aren't windows, as you cannot freely arrange them and see multiple at once.

It is only supported by Excel workbooks/files and only with limitations, but if you open f.e. a CSV file it cannot have more than one sheet either, because it's basically a text file with no further format.

AndrewTP wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 1:34 pmI would like to open a single WINDOWS file and have multiple tabs that are delineated at the bottom of the edit window available.

No, such a thing neither exists for text files in general, nor for TextPad, nor for any other text editor. However, you can save/manage multiple files at once by saving/openening a workspace file - a concept found in other software too, where opening/saving lots of files again and again would be too cumbersome. You can also call it "project" file, as all it does is just referencing all the other files in one single endpoint.