4 Cool Notepad Tricks

Ii will share with you some cool notepad tricks in this post. As the post title suggest, you require nothing but a notepad. So let dive in it...

1. World Trade Center Attack Trick

Q33NY was the flight number of the plane that had hit World Trade Center on (9/11). Now we call this trick or a coincidence or something else but whatever it is you will be definately amazed by the this trick.

1. Open Notepad and Type “Q33N” (without quotes) in capital letters.
2. Increase the font size to 72.
3. Change the Font to Wingdings.
4. And see the effect.

2. Matrix Effect

In this trick i will show you to make a batch file in notepad which will act as matrix effect that you might have seen in movies. Matrix effect is basically number flashes in green color.

1. Open Notepad and paste the code bellow.
2. Now save the file with the extension .bat (e.g.  anyName.bat)
3. Now just double click (open) your saved file and that's it - your matrix effect.

@echo off
color 02
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start

3. Personal Diary Using Notepad

Here you will learn how to use notepad as Digital diary or a log book to keep record of your daily work instead of using pen and paper.

1. Open Notepad and Type .LOG (in capital Letters)
2. Save the program with any name and close it.
3. Open the file again. Now you can see current date and time, This will happen every time you reopen notepad

4. Dancing Keyboard Led

In this part i will show you to make interesting file using notepad which will make keyboard led to dance. basically we will be creating a visual basic script.

1. Open Notepad and paste the code bellow.
2. Then save this file as dance.vbs.
3. Open your save file and see your keyboard led blinking like disco lights.

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop