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 12Ghosts NotePad
The better Notepad!

Easy to use editor for keeping notes or addresses. It provides unlimited text size, font formatting, and easy-to-use editing hotkeys. 12-Notepad has interesting automation for saving (every 1/2 second), copying (on selection), scrolling (move mouse to top or button), and closing (on focus lost). With a bar to open pages with one click, and do so at the exact same position you left typing last time, it is an attractive editor worth trying.

Features of Notepad

•	Unlimited text size

•	Font formatting

•	Automatic saving (optional)

•	Auto-scrolling - move mouse near the bottom / top edge of the window (scrolls slower when the mouse is to the right and faster when it’s to the left)

•	Copy on selection (optional)

•	Find and Replace

•	Supports Internet and file system links, one click activation

•	Easy window positioning with arrow keys and mouse

•	Word wrap to window (optional)

•	Always on top (optional)

•	Close on focus lost (optional)

New in this Version

•	Multi-page control

•	Better auto-scrolling with optional sound

•	More options to customize

•	AutoCalculation on "=", for example when you enter "4*4" and press the "=" key, the result 16 will be inserted.

•	12Ghosts Notepad perfectly integrates with 12Ghosts 2ndBackup. This combination is the most secure text processing system you could imagine for all kind of texts!

Shortcut Keys for Notepad

Notepad supports all the normal edit keys used in all the common editors. You probably know most of them. Here is a complete list.

Moving
Arrow Keys	Move insertion mark
Home/End	Begin/End of line
Prev/Next	Page up/down
Ctrl+Home/End	Begin/End of document
Ctrl+Left/Right	Next/previous word
Ctrl+Up/Down	Scroll line vertically
Ctrl+Shift+Prev/Next	Scroll line horizontally (if no word wrap)
Editing
Shift+Move	Select text (and optionally copy)
Ctrl+A	Select all
Del	Right-delete character or delete selection
Backspace	Left-delete character or delete selection
Ctrl+Del	Delete word right
Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Ins	Copy to clipboard (i.e. "take" the selection with you)
Ctrl+V or Shift+Ins	Paste from clipboard (i.e. insert what you have taken before)
Ctrl+X or Shift+Del	Cut to clipboard (i.e. copy to clipboard and delete the selection)
Ctrl+F	Search
Ctrl+H	Replace
F3	Find next
Ctrl+F3	Find current selection
Formating
Alt+F	Open the Font Format settings window
Ctrl+B	Bold
Ctrl+I	Italic
Ctrl+U	Underline
Ctrl+8/9	Decrease/increase font size
Shift+F3 or F6	Change capitalization
"=" (equals sign) or F11	Insert result if calculation is found, e.g. "4*4=" would be replaced with "4*4=16" as soon as you press "=" (equals sign) or F11. Plus +, minus -, multiplication * or x, division /, and power of ^ or y will be processed.
ALT+0149	• (i.e. insert a bullet) Note: You can insert any character from the (Start - Programs - Accessories) Character Map
Miscellaneous
Ctrl+S	Save (if AutoSave is off)
Alt+O	Options sub menu
Alt+O+W	Toggle word wrap
Alt+Ctrl+Arrow Keys	Move upper-left window border 1 Pixel
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+ Arrow Keys	Move lower-right window border 1 Pixel
Alt+Arrow Keys	Move upper-left window border 10 Pixel
Alt+Shift+Arrow Keys	Move lower-right window border 10 Pixel
Multi-Page Control (Note: You can also right-click on the page names.)
Ctrl+Prev/Next or Ctrl+(Shift)+Tab	Previous/Next Page
Ctrl+N	New Page
Ctrl+D	Delete Page
Alt+Enter	Rename/Move Page
Ctrl+R	Move Page Right
Ctrl+L	Move Page Left

ShowTime Registry Option for Notepad

You could configure 12-ShowTime to start Notepad from the main ShowTime window or directly by hotkey.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PACT Software\ShowTime
STRING value

Start	Path to start on click on left half of ShowTime window, string
Default: start 12-NotePad

Notepad registry options

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PACT Software\Notepad
DWORD values, 1=yes, 0=no, -1=default
STRING values for names and paths

OptKeepSaved	Default: Yes
OptSelectCopy	Default: No
OptWordWrap	Default: Yes
OptBigMargins	Default: Yes
OptKeepOnTop	Default: No
OptFocusClose	Default: No
OptNoOptions	Don't show Options in menu, default: No
PagesOn	Page Bar on or off, default: Yes
PagesColText	Page Bar: text color on mouse over, default: FF0000, blue
PagesColTextCurrent	Page Bar: current page text color on mouse over, default: 000000, black
PagesColLight	Page Bar: text color, default: C0C0C0, light-gray
PagesColLightCurrent	Page Bar: current text color, default: 808080, dark-gray
PagesLightDelay	Delay until the text color changes back to light, in milliseconds, default: 1000
PagesHighlight	Page Bar: highlight on/off on mouse over text, default: Yes
PagesColHighlight	Page Bar: highlight color on mouse over text, default: 008000, light-green
FilesDefaultPath	Default path for new documents, string, default "C:\My Documents\Notes"
FilesDefaultName	Default name for new documents, string, default "12Ghosts Notepad Page"
FilesDefaultTypeText	Default type for new documents, [0=RTF, 1=TXT], default: RTF
FilesSaveAsMove	On SaveAs move file, don't create copy, default: No)
FilesDeletePhysicalFile	Delete physical file on delete, default: No (otherwise only removes description from 12Ghosts Notepad. Set this to 1 if you are the kind of guy who thinks, "When I say delete, I mean delete!"), default: No
FilesShredAndDelete	On delete overwrite complete file with 0xFF, then with 0x00, then delete (FilesDeletePhysicalFile must be active), default: No
FilesShredStop	For testing purposes, stop after each shredding step to control the effect, before finally deleting the overwritten file, default: No
ScrollTransBrightness	Scroll line transition brightness [0:dark-255:light], default: 128
ScrollTransColor	Scroll line transition color, RGB value, default: FF0000, blue (little-endian)
ScrollLineHeight	Scroll line height, [0-5, 0=off], default: 4
ScrollLineTop	Scroll line position [0-(5-ScrollLineHeight)], default: 1

Changing Sounds

Notepad plays several sounds so that you may better find your way. When you move the mouse over the left side of the ShowTime main window, as well as when you hover with the mouse over the first or last two lines of text, the sound ENNNN.WAV is played. This way you are able to locate the auto-scrolling area without even looking, what you might consider to be an advantage.

On the other hand, you might have other preferences regarding the sound or the volume. When you open the installation folder C:\Program Files\12Ghosts ShowTime you will find several wave and midi files. ENNNN.WAV was mentioned above. You will also notice LINE.WAV and PAGE.WAV, the clicking sounds playing when you auto-scroll up or down per line or page.

You can edit these three files with the Windows accessory SoundRecorder, for example decreasing the volume or recording your unique sounds. Or you can copy and rename your preferred sounds here. For example, you will find ENNNN2.WAV in the same folder, which is a rather harmonic alternative to ENNNN.WAV. Just rename ENNNN.WAV to ENNNN1.WAV and then ENNNN2.WAV back to ENNNN.WAV to activate it as the humming Notepad sound.

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