DocPad is a superior alternative to Notepad.  Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it has many advantages:  10-level undo, alphabetization, block indent/unindent, bookmark, case conversion, encoding conversion, file history, jump to line, jump to offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, spell checking, statistics, variable pitch font, and much more.  It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.

• 10-level undo
• Alphabetization of paragraphs
• Block indention and unindention
• Bookmark
• Calculator, calendar, and character map tools
• Convert various encodings including Base-64, Quoted-Printable, UTF-7, etc.
• Convert to lower/upper/title/sentence case
• Cut, copy, and paste
• File type association tool
• File drag & drop
• Help file
• Jump to line/character
• Keyboard macros (unlimited in size and number)
• Normalize spaces
• Print and Print Preview (user can adjust margins, font, page numbering).
• Recent file history
• Search and replace, including case-insensitive, whole-word, and wildcard searches.
• Selectable character set
• Skinnable user interface
• Spell checking
• Statistics on characters, words, lines, and paragraphs
• Text drag & drop
• Toolbar, Status Bar
• Trim trailing spaces from lines
• Variable-pitch fonts support
• Word wrap

And it's free!

Click here to download DocPad version 7.0, released May 15th, 2008.  This file is a self-extracting archive; open the file and a setup program will guide you through the installation process.  The download is approximately 3.5 MB and installation will use approximately 7 MB of hard disk space.

If you prefer to download the installer inside of a .zip file, click here.

Any computer with Windows® 98, NT4, 2000, ME, XP, 2003, or Vista can run DocPad.

DocPad is free.  All we ask is that you take a look at our other software.

This screenshot shows the "Wood" skin.  Many other skins are available.