"I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoy DocPad. What an absolutely nice all around multi-feature text editor."
- Sidris Henriksen
- Sidris Henriksen
"The best I've found of many I've tried. It's my replacement for Notepad & WordPad."
- John
- John
"Been using it for about 6 months and don't know what I would do without it now."
- Sidney Hobbs
- Sidney Hobbs
DocPad
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Text Editor for Windows
DocPad is a free alternative to Notepad. Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it offers an arsenal of time-saving tools: block indent/unindent, bookmarking, case conversion, encoding conversion, file backups, file history, jump to line/offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, skinnable interface, spell checking, statistics, text to speech, and much more. It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.
Features
- The Tabbed Document Interface allows you to open multiple files for editing in one window.
- Undo up to 100 changes
- Edits files with 8-bit ASCII characters or 16-bit unicode characters.
- Search and replace, with case-insensitive, whole-word, and regular expression options.
- Calculator, calendar, and character map tools
- Backups of every changed file can easily be restored
- Spell checking (English and Spanish)
- Toolbar, Status Bar
- Keyboard macros (unlimited in size and number)
- Scalable, skinnable user interface
- Block selection (hold down Alt key while dragging mouse)
- Word wrap
- Statistics on characters, words, lines, and paragraphs
- Convert to lower/upper/title/sentence case
- Cut, copy, and paste
- Text drag & drop
- Imports HTML files, converting to plain text
- Print and Print Preview (user can adjust margins, font, page numbering)
- Quick Text (create and later insert snippets of text)
- Block indent and unindent
- Bookmark
- Jump to line/character
- Normalize spaces
- File type association tool
- Recent file history
- Convert various encodings including Base-64, Quoted-Printable, UTF-8, etc.
- Alphabetization of paragraphs
- Trim trailing spaces from lines
- Detailed help file
And it's free!
Download
Click the button below to download DocPad version 30.0, released on August 14th, 2023. Microsoft Windows is required (XP or later).
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DocPad is fully functional freeware. However, if you like it, you can make a donation (available in $5 increments).
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