In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors. These ...

The new IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions are now available in the Microsoft Excel Beta Channel, if you're running version ...

ANSI and UTF-8 are two types of text encoding. The former is the default encoding that is used when you save text files created in Notepad, the text editor included in the Windows operating system.

If you keep on changing TextEdit from rich text mode to plain text each time you open the app, here's how you can change the default settings in the often-used text-editing tool. TextEdit is arguably ...

The Linux fold takes lines of text and breaks them into chunks based on the arguments that you provide. With no arguments, fold will break lines at 80 characters. The first example below uses a single ...

While working on a Microchip PIC project, I created a set of SCPI-style (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) commands to control the PIC. These SCPI commands use the first four characters ...