DocPad

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Text Editor for Windows

DocPad is a free alternative to Notepad. Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it offers an arsenal of time-saving tools: block indent/unindent, bookmarking, case conversion, encoding conversion, file backups, file history, jump to line/offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, skinnable interface, spell checking, statistics, text to speech, and much more. It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.

Features

The Tabbed Document Interface allows you to open multiple files for editing in one window.
Undo up to 100 changes
Edits files with 8-bit ASCII characters or 16-bit unicode characters.
Search and replace, with case-insensitive, whole-word, and regular expression options.
Calculator, calendar, and character map tools
Backups of every changed file can easily be restored
Spell checking (English and Spanish)
Toolbar, Status Bar
Keyboard macros (unlimited in size and number)
Scalable, skinnable user interface
Block selection (hold down Alt key while dragging mouse)
Word wrap
Statistics on characters, words, lines, and paragraphs
Convert to lower/upper/title/sentence case
Cut, copy, and paste
Text drag & drop
Can be installed to a portable USB drive.
Imports HTML files, converting to plain text
Print and Print Preview (user can adjust margins, font, page numbering)
Quick Text (create and later insert snippets of text)
Block indent and unindent
Bookmark
Jump to line/character
Normalize spaces
File type association tool
Recent file history
Convert various encodings including Base-64, Quoted-Printable, UTF-8, etc.
Alphabetization of paragraphs
Trim trailing spaces from lines
Detailed help file

And it's free!

Download

Click the button below to download DocPad version 32.0, released on December 23rd, 2024. Microsoft Windows is required (XP or later).

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Purchase

DocPad is fully functional freeware. However, if you like it, you can make a donation (available in $5 increments).

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