EditPad Lite: A Fast, Free, and Powerful Text Editor

Greetings! This is my second post on computer applications that helped me a lot at work. It’s a program that I use also at home and I think this is a must-have for every Windows computer.

Have you ever felt a need for a text editor that is much more powerful than Notepad, but much less complicated than MS Word or OpenOffice Writer? Well, I do. Sometimes I have to take notes but Notepad is just too weak and it’s a huge hassle to open Word or Writer. EditPad Lite solves that problem. It has an easy-to-use interface that you can customize to suit your text editing needs. It has a multi-tab feature that lets you open many tabs at the same time. You can also customize the color of your editor to whatever color you feel comfortable at. Other features are available at their website (Click here to read about all of the features from the EditPad website).

For me, their best features are:

• Multiple tabs
• Customizable colors
• It’s ability to minimize to system tray so it’s doesn’t add to the taskbar clutter
• It’s ability to stay on top of other windows (it makes it easy to copy text from a scanned document jpg and other tasks that need to have the text editor on top all the time)
• The Convert menu (lets you convert the text to various formats, may it be lower or upper case of even the text encoding)

EditPad Lite is a free software for personal use, so go ahead and try it out (it’s only 3.5MB). They have a Pro version that has more features than the free version, It boasts a very powerful text editor that allows you to edit every text file you have with ease. If you’re a programmer, you can configure it to activate certain coding features for that code, much like Notepad++ (a favorite among programmers but it’s not advisable for your everyday text-editing needs). It also has added options in the Convert menu (It can convert line breaks to spaces!). It also has a built-in spell checker!

There’s a saying that the best things in life are free. And EditPad Lite is one of those best things. I highly recommend you check it out. Oh, it’s only available in Windows.