Notepad Tricks and Tips

With these tricks, you will be able to find out the tricking ability of Microsoft Notepad. But before that, do you know:-

1. The identification code of the flight that attacked the World Trade Centre? 
2. How much control the President of the United States has over Microsoft?
3. How worried Microsoft is about their reputation?

Well if you don't, you will know the answers to all these questions after trying these tricks.

Trick/Answer 1

The supposed identification code of the flight that attacked the World Trade Centre was Q33N (see the bottom of this post for the truth). You might ask what is the trick in that. We could have searched it on the net in an instant. This information is not the trick. The trick starts now:-

1. Open Notepad.
2. Type in Q33N.
3. Change the font size to 72 by clicking on Format and selecting Font in the Menu Bar.
4. Select Wingdings as your Font.
5. Click on OK to see the trick.

 Note: Change back to your default font.


Trick/Answer 2

The President of the United States is undoubtedly one of the most powerful men. No one dares to test his authority. Now that Bush is no longer the President, we would. To test his authority over Microsoft, follow the steps given below:-

1. Open Notepad.
2. Type in "bush hid the facts" without quotes.
3. Save the Notepad file as test.txt or *.txt.
4. Close the Notepad file.
5. Reopen the file to know the results.
6. The file will have different type of text.

Note: This trick might not work on systems running later versions of Windows after XP.

Trick/Answer 3

Most people think reputation is everything and the top brains at Microsoft are no different. To test their reputation protection scheme, try the steps given below:-

1. Open Notepad.
2. Type in "this app can break" without quotes.
3. Save the Notepad file as test.txt or *.txt.
4. Close the Notepad file.
5. Reopen the saved file to know the results.
6. The file will have different type of text.

Note: This trick might not work on systems running later versions of Windows after XP.

Try these notepad tricks yourself to know the results.

On a serious note, none of the flights that attacked the World Trade Centre had the flight identification code Q33N. It is just a rumour which became popular due to its peculiar nature. Moreover, did you notice some similarity in trick 2 and 3? Notice the same word length pattern of the statements. Both the statements have the same word length pattern of 4,3,3 and 5; which seems to cause the bug. The bug appears to have been patched in later versions of Windows after XP. It is not true that the U.S. President has absolute control over Microsoft. It is also not true that Microsoft is that much 'worried' about their reputation.