Auto Insert date into Notepad
I am using Notepad - the standard plain old plain old in Windows 10 Home 64.
I had been typing up some notes and one of my sentences was not correct - I accidentally pasted some text over what I was typing in:
So I was typing this: DISPLAY and CREATE and EDIT
Some large paragraph of text that I had copied previously got inserted over top of my writing (basically a snippet of just text). I had my text hilited (I think) .
I went to Ctrl-Z to undo and as I was doing that somehow my big fingers hit more than one key and I ended up with the CURRENT date and time stamp inserted.
/ 5:43 AM 3/3/2019IT
So I have tried to identify what I had done in order to accomplish that .. and I am unable to determine how in the world I managed to get the current date and time inserted into notepad!
Any idea how this is accomplished?
I do not want alternate suggestions of using Notepad++ or this or that - I want to know how it is possible to do this in the standard Notepad - because somehow I managed to do it by accident.
windows-10 date-time notepad
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I am using Notepad - the standard plain old plain old in Windows 10 Home 64.
I had been typing up some notes and one of my sentences was not correct - I accidentally pasted some text over what I was typing in:
So I was typing this: DISPLAY and CREATE and EDIT
Some large paragraph of text that I had copied previously got inserted over top of my writing (basically a snippet of just text). I had my text hilited (I think) .
I went to Ctrl-Z to undo and as I was doing that somehow my big fingers hit more than one key and I ended up with the CURRENT date and time stamp inserted.
/ 5:43 AM 3/3/2019IT
So I have tried to identify what I had done in order to accomplish that .. and I am unable to determine how in the world I managed to get the current date and time inserted into notepad!
Any idea how this is accomplished?
I do not want alternate suggestions of using Notepad++ or this or that - I want to know how it is possible to do this in the standard Notepad - because somehow I managed to do it by accident.
windows-10 date-time notepad
asked 14 hours ago
StixOStixO
1435
add a comment |
I am using Notepad - the standard plain old plain old in Windows 10 Home 64.
I had been typing up some notes and one of my sentences was not correct - I accidentally pasted some text over what I was typing in:
So I was typing this: DISPLAY and CREATE and EDIT
Some large paragraph of text that I had copied previously got inserted over top of my writing (basically a snippet of just text). I had my text hilited (I think) .
I went to Ctrl-Z to undo and as I was doing that somehow my big fingers hit more than one key and I ended up with the CURRENT date and time stamp inserted.
/ 5:43 AM 3/3/2019IT
So I have tried to identify what I had done in order to accomplish that .. and I am unable to determine how in the world I managed to get the current date and time inserted into notepad!
Any idea how this is accomplished?
I do not want alternate suggestions of using Notepad++ or this or that - I want to know how it is possible to do this in the standard Notepad - because somehow I managed to do it by accident.
windows-10 date-time notepad
asked 14 hours ago
StixOStixO
1435
I am using Notepad - the standard plain old plain old in Windows 10 Home 64.
I had been typing up some notes and one of my sentences was not correct - I accidentally pasted some text over what I was typing in:
So I was typing this: DISPLAY and CREATE and EDIT
Some large paragraph of text that I had copied previously got inserted over top of my writing (basically a snippet of just text). I had my text hilited (I think) .
I went to Ctrl-Z to undo and as I was doing that somehow my big fingers hit more than one key and I ended up with the CURRENT date and time stamp inserted.
/ 5:43 AM 3/3/2019IT
So I have tried to identify what I had done in order to accomplish that .. and I am unable to determine how in the world I managed to get the current date and time inserted into notepad!
Any idea how this is accomplished?
I do not want alternate suggestions of using Notepad++ or this or that - I want to know how it is possible to do this in the standard Notepad - because somehow I managed to do it by accident.
windows-10 date-time notepad
windows-10 date-time notepad
asked 14 hours ago
StixOStixO
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asked 14 hours ago
StixOStixO
1435
asked 14 hours ago
StixOStixO
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asked 14 hours ago
StixOStixO
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asked 14 hours ago
StixOStixO
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If you want to insert the date and time into Notepad, press F5.
edited 3 hours ago
miroxlav
7,53852569
answered 14 hours ago
Bogdan DoicinBogdan Doicin
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or Edit>Time/Date
– Moab
13 hours ago
@Moab - never occurred to me to check that - as notepad had been so bland for years - I never checked to see if there were any enhancements! Thx..
– StixO
11 hours ago
2
@StixO: recent enhancement? LOL, this goes back to Windows 3.11 and earlier! i.stack.imgur.com/qk997.png
– Matteo Italia
7 hours ago
3
@Ismael: It's a little older than that.
– Lightness Races in Orbit
7 hours ago
2
@Matteo: Boom!
– Lightness Races in Orbit
6 hours ago
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If you want to insert the date and time into Notepad, press F5.
edited 3 hours ago
miroxlav
7,53852569
answered 14 hours ago
Bogdan DoicinBogdan Doicin
342212
3
or Edit>Time/Date
– Moab
13 hours ago
@Moab - never occurred to me to check that - as notepad had been so bland for years - I never checked to see if there were any enhancements! Thx..
– StixO
11 hours ago
2
@StixO: recent enhancement? LOL, this goes back to Windows 3.11 and earlier! i.stack.imgur.com/qk997.png
– Matteo Italia
7 hours ago
3
@Ismael: It's a little older than that.
– Lightness Races in Orbit
7 hours ago
2
@Matteo: Boom!
– Lightness Races in Orbit
6 hours ago
|
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If you want to insert the date and time into Notepad, press F5.
edited 3 hours ago
miroxlav
7,53852569
answered 14 hours ago
Bogdan DoicinBogdan Doicin
342212
3
or Edit>Time/Date
– Moab
13 hours ago
@Moab - never occurred to me to check that - as notepad had been so bland for years - I never checked to see if there were any enhancements! Thx..
– StixO
11 hours ago
2
@StixO: recent enhancement? LOL, this goes back to Windows 3.11 and earlier! i.stack.imgur.com/qk997.png
– Matteo Italia
7 hours ago
3
@Ismael: It's a little older than that.
– Lightness Races in Orbit
7 hours ago
2
@Matteo: Boom!
– Lightness Races in Orbit
6 hours ago
|
show 4 more comments
If you want to insert the date and time into Notepad, press F5.
edited 3 hours ago
miroxlav
7,53852569
answered 14 hours ago
Bogdan DoicinBogdan Doicin
342212
If you want to insert the date and time into Notepad, press F5.
edited 3 hours ago
miroxlav
7,53852569
answered 14 hours ago
Bogdan DoicinBogdan Doicin
342212
edited 3 hours ago
miroxlav
7,53852569
edited 3 hours ago
miroxlav
7,53852569
edited 3 hours ago
miroxlav
7,53852569
7,53852569
answered 14 hours ago
Bogdan DoicinBogdan Doicin
342212
answered 14 hours ago
Bogdan DoicinBogdan Doicin
342212
answered 14 hours ago
Bogdan DoicinBogdan Doicin
342212
342212
3
or Edit>Time/Date
– Moab
13 hours ago
@Moab - never occurred to me to check that - as notepad had been so bland for years - I never checked to see if there were any enhancements! Thx..
– StixO
11 hours ago
2
@StixO: recent enhancement? LOL, this goes back to Windows 3.11 and earlier! i.stack.imgur.com/qk997.png
– Matteo Italia
7 hours ago
3
@Ismael: It's a little older than that.
– Lightness Races in Orbit
7 hours ago
2
@Matteo: Boom!
– Lightness Races in Orbit
6 hours ago
|
show 4 more comments
3
or Edit>Time/Date
– Moab
13 hours ago
@Moab - never occurred to me to check that - as notepad had been so bland for years - I never checked to see if there were any enhancements! Thx..
– StixO
11 hours ago
2
@StixO: recent enhancement? LOL, this goes back to Windows 3.11 and earlier! i.stack.imgur.com/qk997.png
– Matteo Italia
7 hours ago
3
@Ismael: It's a little older than that.
– Lightness Races in Orbit
7 hours ago
2
@Matteo: Boom!
– Lightness Races in Orbit
6 hours ago
3
3
or Edit>Time/Date
– Moab
13 hours ago
or Edit>Time/Date
– Moab
13 hours ago
@Moab - never occurred to me to check that - as notepad had been so bland for years - I never checked to see if there were any enhancements! Thx..
– StixO
11 hours ago
@Moab - never occurred to me to check that - as notepad had been so bland for years - I never checked to see if there were any enhancements! Thx..
– StixO
11 hours ago
2
2
@StixO: recent enhancement? LOL, this goes back to Windows 3.11 and earlier! i.stack.imgur.com/qk997.png
– Matteo Italia
7 hours ago
@StixO: recent enhancement? LOL, this goes back to Windows 3.11 and earlier! i.stack.imgur.com/qk997.png
– Matteo Italia
7 hours ago
3
3
@Ismael: It's a little older than that.
– Lightness Races in Orbit
7 hours ago
@Ismael: It's a little older than that.
– Lightness Races in Orbit
7 hours ago
2
2
@Matteo: Boom!
– Lightness Races in Orbit
6 hours ago
@Matteo: Boom!
– Lightness Races in Orbit
6 hours ago
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