INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE NOTEPAD



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  HOW TO OPEN NOTEPAD   HOW TO FORCE YOUR CODE TO THE NEXT LINE   MOVING AND COPYING CODE BETWEEN WEB DOCUMENTS
  HOW TO SAVE YOUR WEB DOCUMENT AS A WEBPAGE
  HOW TO BEGIN A NEW WEB DOCUMENT WITHOUT EVER LEAVING NOTEPAD
  HOW TO MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR WEB PAGE AFTER YOU'VE CLOSED NOTEPAD

NOTE: System colors may vary per system, and your system's colors may be different than mine. That's OK.

HOW TO OPEN NOTEPAD

Click the Start Button to open the Start Menu. Click on Run, and in the Run dialog which appears, type "notepad" (without the quotation marks) in the Open field. Press the Enter key, and Notepad will appear.

Start MenuRun Dialog

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HOW TO FORCE YOUR CODE TO THE NEXT LINE

Called word wrapping, forcing the text to the next line allows the author to neatly organize their code so that they may quickly edit a webpage when the time calls for it. Open Notepad, then click the Edit menu, which drop-downs with many options that will allow you to use Notepad more efficiently. If Word Wrap does not have a small checkmark by it, word wrapping is not enabled. To enable it, click it. All text which remained on the same line is now forced to stay within the window's boundaries, wrapping to the line below it.


Word Wrapping

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MOVING AND COPYING CODE BETWEEN WEB DOCUMENTS

Perhaps one of the most unique features of any text editor is the ability to move text of any kind between web documents, so that, if you accidently typed something in the wrong document, you can take it out of the wrong document and put it into the correct document. To assist in the teaching this method, I will provide pictures of only the necessary parts of Notepad used to complete this operation. In Notepad, you will need to type some text. Once you do this, Before I continue, you will need to open another session of Notepad, that is, two windows with "Notepad" in the titlebar need to be present. In the Notepad with text, select the text with your mouse, click the Edit menu, and, if you want to move the text from this document to the blank Notepad, click Cut; if you wish to copy the text between the documents, click Copy. Click the blank Notepad so that you can work in it, move the cursor to the place where you want the text to appear, click the Edit menu, and finally click Paste. You now know how to transfer text between two documents.

Select the text, then drop down the Edit menu. Choose either Cut or Copy.Click the blank Notepad you haven't used, click the Edit menu, then Paste.

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HOW TO SAVE YOUR WEB DOCUMENT AS A WEBPAGE

Open Notepad. Click File, then Save. A save dialog will appear as below.

Luckily, in case you happen to be visionly-challenged through color, I have also provided simple shapes to explain the next steps of saving your work.

Step 1: Click the Desktop icon as shown by a Purple Rounded Square. This will replace "My Documents" with "Desktop".
Step 2: Click the Down arrow of the drop-down menu which includes "Text Files" as shown by a Blue Circle. You should have an option called "All Files"; click this and proceed to Step 3.
Step 3: Click the white box where "Untitled" is located, as shown by a Red Rectangle. Replace "Untitled" with the filename I tell you throughout the tutorial itself (so that we can work together without hassle), and without the quotes. After the name, type ".htm" again, without the quotes, to make your web document a web page. You are still able to make changes to your web page until you close out of Notepad.

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HOW TO BEGIN A NEW WEB DOCUMENT WITHOUT EVER LEAVING NOTEPAD

Open Notepad. Click the File menu, then New. If you haven't saved your document, you will be prompted to either save it or discard it. Otherwise you will immediately be given a new Notepad session.


Creating a new web document

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HOW TO MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR WEB PAGE AFTER YOU'VE CLOSED NOTEPAD

Your webpage was saved to the Desktop, and will have this icon . Open your webpage, and in Internet Explorer, click View to drop down the menu, then View Source. Your page's code (short for "source code") will appear in Notepad as a new window. Whenever you make changes to your document, save your work, and click back on the Internet Explorer window, leaving your code opened. Click the Refresh icon to see the changes.

Open your web page. In Internet Explorer, click the View menu, then View Source. Your page's source code will appear in a new window in Notepad.After making your necessary changes, click anywhere on the Internet Explorer window, then the Refresh icon to see your changes in effect.

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