Chapter 4 – Windows Applications: Notepad, WordPad,

and Paint
Additional Activities

NOTEPAD
• Text editor.
• NO embedded codes.
• Creates text files.
• Uses/Multitasking/Create/edit batch files.

4.7 z Activity z Using Notepad

• Place Practice (Formatted) Disk in Drive A.

• Click Start. Point to All Programs. Point to Accessories. Click
Notepad.
• Key in CIS 106 is offering Windows XP. Hit return and type your
name.
• Click Edit on the menu bar. click Time/Date.
• Click Save.
• Click the down arrow in the Save in drop-down list box.
• Click the Drive A icon.
• In the File name text box, highlight Untitled. Key in: Practice
• Click Save.
• Close Notepad.
• Open Notepad.
• Click File/Open.
• Click the down arrow in the Look in drop-down list box. Click Drive A
icon.
• Double-click Practice.txt.
• Press <Ctrl> + <End>.
• Key in: Printer <tab> <tab> HP LaserJet.
• Close Notepad.
• Click Yes.

FORMATTING WITH PAGE SETUP AND PRINTING IN NOTEPAD

• Locate file
• Print choices.

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 • File/Print command from menu bar.
• Context-sensitive (shortcut) menus.
• Open Notepad and print document.
• Advantage of opening Notepad prior to locating file.
• Apply page-level formatting.
• Add header and/or footer.
• Alter margins.

4.9 z Activity z Page Setup and Printing in Notepad

• Practice disk in Drive A. Open Notepad. Click File/Open.

• Click the down arrow in the Look in drop-down list box. Click Drive A
icon.
• Double-click Practice.txt.
• Click File/Page Setup.
• Click the question mark on the menu bar and drag it over the Header
text box and click it (this will produce an information box with
available options for use with the & symbol).
• Click outside information box to close it. Select text in Header text
box. Key in: &cPRACTICE FILE.
• Select text in Footer text box.
Key in: &l&f &rPage &p
• Change right and left margins to 2”.
• Make sure printer is on. Click OK/File/Print.
• Save file. Close Notepad.
• Open My Computer. Double-click Drive A/Right-Click Practice.txt.
• Click Print.
• Close Drive A window.

FEATURES OF NOTEPAD
• Notepad - minimal editing features.
• Word wrap
• Create/save/reopen (to edit) file.
• Create time log.
• Within Notepad - cut copy, and paste text.
• Copy data to Notepad from other files.
• Transfer Notepad text to other word-processing text or database
document.

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4.9 z Activity z Using Features of Notepad

• Practice disk is in Drive A. Open Notepad.

• Key in: .LOG
• Click File/Save.
• Click the down arrow in the Save in drop-down list box. Click 3 ½
Floppy (A:).
• Select Untitled in File name text box. Key in: LOG. Click Save.
• Close Notepad. Open Notepad. Click File/Open.
• Click the down arrow in the Look in drop-down list box. Click 3 1/2
Floppy (A:). Double-click LOG.txt.
• Key in: I am completing a practice assignment with Notepad.
• Click File/Save.
• Click File/Open.
• In Look in text box, click (C:). Double-click XPROData folder.
• Double-click Titan.txt.
• Size Notepad.
• Click Edit/Word Wrap.
• Click Find.
• Key in: titan
• Click Find Next.
• Click Cancel.
• Click insertion point in front of Saturn’s. Place cursor after the n in
Titan. Hold <Shift> key and click.
• Click Edit/Copy.
• Click File/Open.
• Click No.
• In Look in drop-down list box, click 3 ½ Floppy (A:). Double-click
LOG.txt. Click Edit/Paste.
• Click File/Save.
• Close Notepad.

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Paint

4.18 z Activity z Creating a New Picture

• Click Start. Point to All Programs. Point to Accessories. Click Paint.

• Maximize the window.
• Select the Pencil tool.
• Drag the mouse while holding down the left mouse button. Draw a
shape.
• Drag the mouse to create a second shape but do not release the left
mouse button. If you click the right mouse button without releasing
the left mouse button you will remove from the screen what you just
created.
• Click the Brush tool.
• Click the largest square in the Tool options box in the lower left of
the window. Draw a line.
• Select the Free-Form Select tool. Select the two shapes you just
created by left-dragging the mouse around the shapes, then release
the left mouse button. The selection is represented by a box of
dotted lines.
• Place the cursor inside the dotted rectangle. Drag the box to another
spot in the window. As long as an object is selected, it can be
manipulated.
• Click outside the shape to deselect the object.
• Click the Select tool. Select the shapes you just moved.
• Click Edit on the menu bar. Click Copy. Click Edit. Click Paste. You
saved your object to the Clipboard. Then you pasted it. You now have
two copies of your object. Paste always copies to the left corner.
• Left-click the color red.
• Right-click the color green.
• Click the Line tool. Pick the middle line for width.
• Draw a line on the screen and release the mouse. Using this line as a
base, draw three more lines to create a rectangle.
• Left-click the color blue.
• Click the Fill With Color tool and place the tip of the paint can in the
rectangle you created. Click the left mouse button.
• Click the Eraser/Color Eraser tool.
• Left-drag across the box. Then right-drag across the box.

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 • The selected background color shows what color the eraser will leave
behind. When you dragged the right mouse button, you changed only
the foreground color to the background color.
• To limit your changes to a specific color (and nothing else), you change
the foreground color to the color you want to erase and the
background color to the color you want to replace it with. Click the
eraser, and then right-drag the mouse across your selection.

4.20 z Activity z Using the Shape Tools

• Launch Paint.
• Click on the Rounded Rectangle tool and then click the top fill shape in
the Tool Options area.
• Anywhere in the drawing area, hold the left mouse button and drag.
When you have a rectangle about one inch high and two inches wide,
release the left mouse button. (If you want a circle or square with
the shape tools, hold down the <Shift> key while dragging the mouse.)
• Left-click red and right-click the color green.
• Left-drag the shape. (Gives you a hollow circle.)
• Right-drag the shape. (Gives you a hollow circle with the background
color border).
• Experiment with the middle fill style and the third fill style.
• Use the remaining tools with each of the fill styles. (Don’t forget to
use both left-drag to create the shapes and right-drag).
• Close Paint.

4.22 z Activity z Using a Graphic to Create a Cutout and

Using the text Tool

• Open Paint.
• Click File, open. Locate the XPROData folder and open Plane.bmp.
• Click Image. Click Attributes. (This shows the size of the object
when it was saved. You can increase the size of the drawing canvas by
changing its attributes. Click Default. Click OK.)
• Click outside the image to deselect it. Click Image. Click Clear Image.
• Draw a rectangle in the center of your canvas. (2” X 2”).
• Fill the center of the rectangle with a blue.

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 • You can add images to a document by pasting them onto your canvas.
• Click Edit. Click Paste From. Switch to XPROData if necessary and
double click Plane.bmp. When you Paste From, you are copying an
image into an existing drawing. You can copy the image opaquely or
transparently.
• Transparently means that your drawing will not obscure the drawing in
the background and will pick up the colors of that background.
• Copying the drawing opaquely means that it will retain its original
colors and will obscure whatever is behind it.
• Drag the plane over the rectangle. Notice what happens.
• Return the plane to the upper left corner of the screen.
• Click the Opaque button in the Tool Option box.
• Drag the plane over the rectangle. Notice the difference.
• When the plane is over the rectangle using either transparent or
opaque, deselect the plane.
• Click the Text tool. In a blank area over your picture, right drag a
rectangle.
• You have created an area to key in text. If the Fonts box did not
appear, click the View menu and click Text Toolbar to activate it.
• Select the Comic Sans font, size 18.
• Type your name.
• Click outside the text box. Click the Select tool. Encircle your name.
Click Image. Click Flip/Rotate. Click Rotate by angle. Click 270. Click
OK. Click outside the box.
• Select the plane and the rectangle using the Select tool. You can
select any part or all of the new object.
• If you select the object, hold the <Ctrl> key, and drag, you will create
a copy of the selected object. You have created a cutout, which is the
part of the drawing that you cut out. A cutout can be saved to a file
and will take less disk space than a full drawing.
• You may save the file to your disk. Click Edit. Click Copy To. Click
the down arrow in the Save in drop-down list box. Double-click the 3
½ Floppy (A) icon. Click the down arrow in the Save as type drop-
down list box. Click the 16 color bitmap.
• Type in a file name and click save.
• Close Paint.

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