Many people use Windows Notepad for simple text editing. It works, but it barely has any features. I thought I would recommend a couple of more beefy text editors I have which I find to be much more powerful:

• TextPad (www.textpad.com). Textpad supports syntax highlighting (for programmers and HTML coders), global search & replace, multiple open files at once, word processing capabilities for those who want it, file comparison, spell checking, macros, etc. Try it for 30 days, and its $32 to register.
• EditPlus (www.editplus.com). Another very nice text editor. It supports all the features of Textpad, but it does have some GUI differences. The major reason I switched to it was that it’s management of the clip library (little clips which you can quickly insert into text files on the fly) was much easier to use. While TextPad’s equivalent made you edit text files to control the clips, Editplus allowed you to do it via the GUI itself.

Happy Editing…