MultiTabPad

Text editors are an important part of computer activities, even though you don’t really get to use one on a daily basis, but this depends mostly on the activities you perform. In case you’re looking for reliable alternatives to the default tools Windows provides, MultiTabPad comes with support for working on multiple documents at a time.

On the bright side of things, there’s no setup involved, so you can go ahead and run the application right after download. Moreover, you can store it, along with text document of interest on a thumb drive to carry both your documents, and an editor wherever you go. Just make sure that .NET Framework is installed on the target PC.

As the name suggests, the application allows you to work on multiple documents at a time. Each is kept open in a different tab, but these are entitled as “page” and not even by the name of the documents. File support is decent, and you can process existing TXT and RTF files, and even save your projects under these formats.

Since it supports rich text format, you benefit from default text customization options. These allow you to change the font type, style, color, and size. Unfortunately, changes apply to the entire document, so you can’t use enhancements for subtitles, or emphasis of particular strings, or paragraphs.

General edit options can be used to copy, cut, paste, undo and redo steps, select, clear, or delete the document. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of visual support, because the edit area isn’t fitted with a character, or word counter, not even one for lines in case you want to write source code here.

MultiTabPad leaves a mixed feeling, with a rather rough design, and not a lot of variety when it comes to manipulating text. File support is decent, letting you handle both plain, and rich text formats, and even though this can be done for multiple documents at a time, it leaves more to be desired overall.