COMPUTER01L17: Text Editor – Plain Text Editors (Notepad)
OBJECTIVES
Define text editor
Identify some examples of plain text editors
Label the parts of the notepad
LESSON PREREQUISITE
None
LESSON PROPER
Text Editor – Plain Text Editors (Notepad)
A text editor is a tool that allows a user to create and revise text documents in a computer. There two category of text editors these are plain text editors and rich text editors.
Plain text editors can only create documents with plain text. Those documents cannot have bold text, fonts, larger font sizes, or any other special text formatting.
Three examples of plain text editors are: Notepad, Gedit, and Textreme.
NOTEPAD is a generic text editor included in all versions of Microsoft Windows. It allows you to create, open, and read plain text files.
GEDIT is a plain text editor that is created for the Linux operating systems. It has the same functions and limitations of a notepad.
TEXTREME is a lively, animated text editor with sounds and game-like visual effects.
PARTS OF A NOTEPAD
TITLE BAR – the title bar is the upper most part of the notepad. It shows the title of the notepad file. In this example, the name of the notepad file is “Untitled.” You can also see in this portion the minimize, maximize, and close buttons.
MENU BAR – the menu bar is located below the title bar. It shows Notepad's option menus, which are file, edit, format, view, and help.
WORK AREA – the work area is the space provided for typing.