Use the textarea to write down notes as you would do it in you favorite editor. Using the buttons or key shortcuts described above you can format your notes.

Right clicking in the text area brings up the context menu giving you the following options:

Copy, Cut, Paste: The usual clipboard functions Paste Text Only: This options pastes text into your note but removing all formatting options. Bold, Italics, Underline, Font, Text Color, Fill Color, Bulleted, Numbered, Clear Style: These options have the same function as the formatting buttons described above. Print: Opens the print dialog and lets you print the selected note Options: Opens the options screen (see below) Minimize: Minimizes to program to the tray. by clicking on the tray icon you can restore the window again. About: Program Info Exit: Exit the program

Right click on the note title and select "Properties" to open die properties dialog. Here you can check the details of the selected note ( filename, size, creation and modification date).

However, the main purpose of this dialog is to set either the note preset or the colors ( title, text and background ) and the font manually.

Right click on the note title and select "Send Via Network" to send a note to another Personal Notepad user. In the send dialog you can specify - along with the recipient - the title the note should have. The recipient can be either entered by specifying an IP address (address{:port} - the default port is 1614), by browsing the local network or by selecting an address stored in your favorites.

Important: to be able to receive notes from other Personal Notepad users, you must enable Personal Notepad to listen for incoming connections. This can be done in the "Network" tab in the options dialog.

Select "View Document List..." from the main menu or from the text box context menu. In the following dialog you can:

• Hide/Show notes: use the Hide/Show button (text on button changes context wise).
• Reorder notes: use the Up/Down buttons to reorder your notes.

Here you can set the overall background color of the notepad ( that doesn't override the textbackground color ), the default textfont and the keyboard shortcut to activate the Personal Notepad window.

Here you can specify the appearance of the tabs.

If Override theme font/height is checked, the selected font and height value will be used, even if the currently used theme has different settings defined.

• Auto Format: this option enabled/disables the auto formatting described in the Autoformat chapter
• Save after every keystroke: if this option is enabled, the notes get saved after each character pressed. If not, the notes get only saved when changing tabs or when the application looses the focus ( eg. after switching to another application)
• Check for New Version On Startup: if this option is selected, the program checks whether a new version of Personal Notepad is available on the server. You must be connected to the internet to use this feature.
• Show Tooltips: if this option is enabled, tool tips get displayed when hovering over the formatting buttons.
• Confirm exit: if this optins is selected, you will have to confirm exiting the program.
• Allow only one instance of Personal Notepad: if this options is enabled you will only have one instance of Personal Notepad running. If you try to open another instance of the program a previous instance will be activated.

Use the list to select your preferred tray icon.

Here you can select between the installed languages. To download more language files, click Get other languages.

Place downloaded language files in the <i<languages</i> subfolder of the Personal Notepad installation folder.

If Silent is checked, the archiving process i performed in the background, otherwise you will see a message box telling you some statistics after each archiving event.

By default archives are stored in "Documents and Settings\{USERNAME}\Application Data\PersonalNotepad\archive". However, you can specify a custom archiving folder. This way you can store your archives on a central backups folder or a network drive.

You can also archive your files manually selecting Archive in either the main menu or the context menu.

Here you can change the keyboard shortcuts for all Personal Notepad commands. Simply double click on a command to change the shortcut.

Double clicking on an installed plugin will bring up the plugin properties dialog. Her you can review some information about the plugin, eg the author, plugin version and the minimum required program version to run the plugin.

Additionally you can disable/enable a plugin by clicking the Disable/Enable button. Also you can open the plugin config file - see the documentation of the plugin to check the meaning of any values stored in the config file.

"Listen for incoming files": If this box is checked, Personal Notepad will listen for incoming connection at the specified port (default: 1614). If the box is not checked you will not be able to receive notes from your friends/colleagues.

Important: If you have a firewall, you must allow Personal Notepad to open a server port. Otherwise you will not be able to receive files.