I use Notepad a lot for transferring text to word processing documents
and other thing. Thus, after my recent upgrade to XP from Millennium
Edition, I was annoyed to see that the text font that displays in
Notepad is HORRIBLE!!! The problem is that capital letters aren't tall
enough, rendering the text you type much harder to read (well, at least
much harder for ME to read.)

After looking through the fonts that are installed on my compute, it
seems that the text body disply font in Notepad may be Lucida Console.
If you double click on that font name your font folder, you'll see that
the problem with capital letters that aren't sized properly (in this
case, the letter "t"). Whether or not Lucida Console is what everybody
sees in Notepad, I don't know. However, this is a fresh install on a
formatted hard drive so it's likely that this would be the case.

Does anybody know of a way to change the default display font (for text
that you type into the document that you are creating) for Notepad? This
is really an annoyance that I can do without. Why Microsoft decided to
do this is totally beyond me.

TIA

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"John Corliss" <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in message news:11qii1233802tac@corp.supernews.com...
>I use Notepad a lot for transferring text to word processing documents
> and other thing. Thus, after my recent upgrade to XP from Millennium
> Edition, I was annoyed to see that the text font that displays in
> Notepad is HORRIBLE!!! The problem is that capital letters aren't tall
> enough, rendering the text you type much harder to read (well, at least
> much harder for ME to read.)
>
> After looking through the fonts that are installed on my compute, it
> seems that the text body disply font in Notepad may be Lucida Console.
> If you double click on that font name your font folder, you'll see that
> the problem with capital letters that aren't sized properly (in this
> case, the letter "t"). Whether or not Lucida Console is what everybody
> sees in Notepad, I don't know. However, this is a fresh install on a
> formatted hard drive so it's likely that this would be the case.
>
> Does anybody know of a way to change the default display font (for text
> that you type into the document that you are creating) for Notepad? This
> is really an annoyance that I can do without. Why Microsoft decided to
> do this is totally beyond me.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Regards from John Corliss

John

Why are you using Notepad?.. it is the most basic of text editors, and
designed to be that way..

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"John Corliss" <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in message
news:11qii1233802tac@corp.supernews.com...
>I use Notepad a lot for transferring text to word processing documents and
>other thing. Thus, after my recent upgrade to XP from Millennium Edition, I
>was annoyed to see that the text font that displays in Notepad is
>HORRIBLE!!! The problem is that capital letters aren't tall enough,
>rendering the text you type much harder to read (well, at least much harder
>for ME to read.)
>
> After looking through the fonts that are installed on my compute, it seems
> that the text body disply font in Notepad may be Lucida Console. If you
> double click on that font name your font folder, you'll see that the
> problem with capital letters that aren't sized properly (in this case, the
> letter "t"). Whether or not Lucida Console is what everybody sees in
> Notepad, I don't know. However, this is a fresh install on a formatted
> hard drive so it's likely that this would be the case.
>
> Does anybody know of a way to change the default display font (for text
> that you type into the document that you are creating) for Notepad? This
> is really an annoyance that I can do without. Why Microsoft decided to do
> this is totally beyond me.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Regards from John Corliss

David Candy wrote:
> Did you look. Did you read help. The answer is so obvious.

Egad! You're absolutely right! How in the world did I miss that? Well, I
guess I assumed that changing the font was only going to apply for the
current document, and that the next time I opened Notepad it would be
back to Lucida Console. This is because all it says is "Font...", not
"Default font" or the like.

At any rate, thanks!

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Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
> John
>
> Why are you using Notepad?.. it is the most basic of text editors, and
> designed to be that way..

As I clearly stated in my OP, "I use Notepad a lot for transferring text
to word processing documents and other thing." (by which I meant, "thingS")

Maybe that wasn't clear enough. I use it as a kind of
"copy-as-plain-text-and-edit" clipboard.
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John

Just surprised that you don't use WordPad, is all..

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MVP - Windows Shell/User


"John Corliss" <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in message
news:11qinso561ikoaa@corp.supernews.com...
> Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
>> John
>>
>> Why are you using Notepad?.. it is the most basic of text editors, and
>> designed to be that way..
>
> As I clearly stated in my OP, "I use Notepad a lot for transferring text
> to word processing documents and other thing." (by which I meant,
> "thingS")
>
> Maybe that wasn't clear enough. I use it as a kind of
> "copy-as-plain-text-and-edit" clipboard.
> --
> Regards from John Corliss

>> Did you look. Did you read help. The answer is so obvious.
>
> Egad! You're absolutely right! How in the world did I miss that? Well, I
> guess I assumed that changing the font was only going to apply for the
> current document, and that the next time I opened Notepad it would be back
> to Lucida Console. This is because all it says is "Font...", not "Default
> font" or the like.
>
> At any rate, thanks!

You can't specify any formatting attributes for documents loaded in Notepad,
so as far as I'm concerned, it makes sense to have the menu labeled just
Font instead of Default Font.

But we're just discussing semantics at this point. :-p

So change it to something you like. <Alt> O F and then select
something you do like, then save the document. Notepad remembers the
last saved configuration.

"John Corliss" <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in message
news:11qii1233802tac@corp.supernews.com...
|I use Notepad a lot for transferring text to word processing
documents
| and other thing. Thus, after my recent upgrade to XP from Millennium
| Edition, I was annoyed to see that the text font that displays in
| Notepad is HORRIBLE!!! The problem is that capital letters aren't
tall
| enough, rendering the text you type much harder to read (well, at
least
| much harder for ME to read.)
|
| After looking through the fonts that are installed on my compute, it
| seems that the text body disply font in Notepad may be Lucida
Console.
| If you double click on that font name your font folder, you'll see
that
| the problem with capital letters that aren't sized properly (in this
| case, the letter "t"). Whether or not Lucida Console is what
everybody
| sees in Notepad, I don't know. However, this is a fresh install on a
| formatted hard drive so it's likely that this would be the case.
|
| Does anybody know of a way to change the default display font (for
text
| that you type into the document that you are creating) for Notepad?
This
| is really an annoyance that I can do without. Why Microsoft decided
to
| do this is totally beyond me.
|
| TIA
|
| --
| Regards from John Corliss