Registry Entries for Notepad

You can try this although I don't know if it will work. Good luck!

http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/cooltips.html#Use%20Notepad%20As%20a%20Word%20Processor

guidway

click on the bottom link that says: Use notepad as a word processor. again, hope this helps,

guidway

Yeah, I tried that before I posted the question here...it doesn't do what I need.

I also tried changing IfOrientation to a value of 1 and that doesn't work either.

Hmm, maybe the notepad initialization information is saved in a text file on the computer somewhere. Sort of like a notepad.ini file except not named that.I'll keep looking and see if I find something that helps. I'll let you know if I find something.

guidway

Notepad is pretty much a self contained program and changes you may be used to in using other word proccessor generally are not available in Notepad.

This free replacement may have what you are looking for.
http://www.mypeecee.org/rogsoft/notepad.html


The Crazy One

Tried that Stevenlewis, problem is Notepad doesn't remember printer selections, so  I have to make the 'notepad' printer my Windows default printer (and have it default to landscape) and setup a second copy of the printer for other applications (where I don't want landscape by default) or I have to go in and change the default settings on the printer everytime I want it to go back to normal.  A solution of sorts, but not the one I'm looking for.  At this point I'm guessing that the "portrait" setting default in Notepad is coded in the program itself and not the easy 'registry' hack I assumed it would be.

Actually the problem is notepad defaults to the default printer. There is no way to specify a different printer for notepad (a very limited app)

Ahh, so the printer window that comes up in Notepad isn't specific to that app, but rather a windows app?

That makes sense.  Well unless someone else has a better idea I'll close the question tonight and give the points to Stevenlewis for helping me put the question to sleep at least.

>>>Ahh, so the printer window that comes up in Notepad isn't specific to that app, but rather a windows app?

Sort of however some other apps that use the same printer dialog box that Notepad uses can save the information that a user selects from that dialog box. Notepad was designed purposely to be very generic and not to have these features. Notepad is a very stripped down word proccessor and it was never intended to be much more than just a scratch pad so to speak. Its main purupose is for jotting down notes hence the name Notepad and not as a word proccessor. By stripping it of features it loads faster into memory making it quicker to access and use. :>)

Yeah.  I was hoping for an easy fix for this but I guess there isn't one.  When I saw the line in the registry for IfOrientation=0, I figured there must be a way to edit the value and switch the default.  Guess I was wrong.
Thanks for all the help though.

In case you're curious as to why I want to do this...a co-worker of mine needed to have a DOS application print a report.  Problem is, as I'm sure you're all aware, not too many of the cheap printers support DOS ...so he had the program export as a text file and then did up a little program to dump the text into notepad and print from there.  He didn't want the user to have to go into notepad and select 'landscape' each time he printed the report.  
At least I think that's what he's trying to do :P

Well colour me stupid!  I got so one-tracked by notepad I didn't even think to suggest he use WordPad which DOES remember the default change to landscape within the app itself :)

oops...ignore that...forgot that I changed the printer default while screwing around :(

rashton wish we could have come up with something better for you

no worries...a minor problem.  Just trying to find a quick solution for a co-worker.