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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.










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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.










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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.










      share|improve this question














      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.







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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






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            @StixO: recent enhancement? LOL, this goes back to Windows 3.11 and earlier! i.stack.imgur.com/qk997.png

            – Matteo Italia
            7 hours ago






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            @Ismael: It's a little older than that.

            – Lightness Races in Orbit
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            @Matteo: Boom!

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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








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            @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.






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          • 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








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            @Matteo: Boom!

            – Lightness Races in Orbit
            6 hours ago
















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          • 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





            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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          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




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          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




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          @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






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          @Matteo: Boom!

          – Lightness Races in Orbit
          6 hours ago







          @Matteo: Boom!

          – Lightness Races in Orbit
          6 hours ago




















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