How to Hide Text in Notepad !!

Nikhil    Home, Tips & Tricks, Windows     hidden notepad hack, hiding files, hiding files in XP, notepad hack, Notepad Tricks

Well who knew we could hide files with notepad?  Often you do all the coding for webpages in notepad and you gotta keep some of those hidden. What you do is look for a utility to hide your text. You simply don’t need it. There’s an easy hack to hide the notepad files. Let’s see how?

Before I begin let me tell you the text files you create with this hack won’t show up even with Windows or DOS whatever be the file settings. These files will only be accessible if you know the exact file name used while creating the file. Let’s begin with the steps,

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USE YOUR NOTEPAD AS A DIARY

Nikhil    Tips & Tricks, Windows     Notepad Tricks, notepad tweaks

You must have seen this a million times before; though it’s too old I still believe it should be useful for those who never heard this trick before. This is for people who use notepad to write down any info on a day to day basis or just like a Diary!

1. Open a blank Notepad file
2. Type .LOG as the first line of the file, followed by an Enter. Save
   the file and close it. [ make sure that you are typing the .LOG in capital letters ]
3. Double-click the file to open it and notice that Notepad appends the current date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor on the line after.
4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.
5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process, appending the time and date to the end of the file and placing the cursor below it.

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