Whether getting text from the Web, ordinary tables, or tables of contents, or any other troublesome formatted text, using Notepad as a paste intermediary is a great time saver.

Nowadays it's easy to put together a web presence using social media and a personal landing page, but if you want to actually make your own web site you're going to need to learn HTML and CSS.

Notepad is also helpful for stripping text formatting when you copy content from Web pages into your own business files. To open Notepad quickly, you can create a shortcut for it on your desktop.