> always surprises me to read people don't regularly use Notepad. There have always been so many free/shareware editors better in every way you wanted, even in

> always surprises me to read people don't regularly use Notepad. There have always been so many free/shareware editors better in every way you wanted, even in launching speed. It always surprised me to hear people regularly using it --- > I use it as a clipboard scratchpad. It strips RTF when copying between programs since Windows itself has no built-in way of doing so and you can also use it to clean up whatever you're copying. I'm pretty sure it's not Notepad that strips RTF, it only exploits the windows clipboard feature: the clipboard can store data in multiple formats, and it's actually the applications that support storing it in RTF that also store it in normal text (this is actually usually handled by a control that the application is using, such as win32's Rich Edit). In short, you can do the same by pasting the text in anything that doesn't support rtf (the only caveat is that the application might reencode and mangle the text when it reads it - old versions of Notepad could do it, for example). There are also utilities that let you paste the clipboard's plain text directly. To see what's really inside the clipboard you can use e.g. https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/inside_clipboard.html https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/inside_clipboard.html , if it still works.