Notepad saves any text file with a txt file extension which means no special formatting or fonts can be used.

What is text document in computer. An old alternative name is flatfile is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. For example select This PC to look in all devices and drives on your computer or select Documents to. The Find pane helps you find characters words and phrases.

Open File Explorer from the taskbar or right-click on the Start menu and choose File Explorer then select a location from the left pane to search or browse. A document is a form of information. The word originates from the Latin Documentum which denotes a teaching or lesson.

The image shows examples of different computer fonts. Document file format Generic container format. A text file is a file that is stored with very few bytes except for the actual codes for the characters it contains.

In addition to text documents can contain graphics charts and other objects. WordPad can perform basic text formatting like changing the font alignment and even inserting multimedia. Looking for text in your document.

Select the Blank document option. If you want you can also replace it with different text. Software programs like Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel and WordPad allow users to change the font used when typing text in the document or spreadsheet as do web designers.

How to create a new text document on your Windows computer. An HTML document is a. Increasingly the line separating word processing files from files produced by other applications is becoming blurred.