Text Editor

In a world where word processors receive updates that provide them with increasingly complex functions, many users opt for the simplicity and reliability of bare-bones alternatives that make do without expensive subscriptions or advanced formatting schemes, which is where Text Editor’s focus on the essentials comes into play.

Once installed, double-clicking the program’s automatically generated desktop shortcut summons a straightforward interface that will feel familiar to long-time users of native Windows apps, featuring a command ribbon that groups all options into tightly-packed drop-down menus for quick access.

The app includes support for quintessential tasks that most users have come to expect from a utility belonging to this category of software such as copying, cutting and pasting content via the universally adopted global hotkey combinations for keyboard-focused workflows, along with dedicated lists in the top-placed toolbar for those accustomed to mouse-based navigation patterns.

For accessibility purposes, those with visual impairments can customize the text’s size, style and font to make the reading and interaction process more palatable. Multitasking is made easier thanks to the program’s support for multiple running instances that can be generated through a handy keyboard shortcut.

Users whose setups have multiple monitors of large sizes and resolutions may want to make the most of the screen real estate by running several applications side-by-side, which is why the app allows for wrapping word lines according to the window’s aspect ratio, thus bypassing the need to scroll horizontally when having to reach the end of a sentence.

Finally, while the program works well for its intended purposes, certain changes can be made to enhance its functionality, such as support for dragging and dropping paragraphs when working with multiple opened documents alongside the inclusion of a dark mode toggle for a better nighttime usage experience.

Whether Notepad’s layout or feature set does not fit your preferences, or you wish to try out what the open-source community has to offer, Text Editor may be a useful alternative for editing, previewing and creating text documents with little effort.