I often draft the details of my question on the Windows Notepad, then copy and paste them to the body of the question at the forum. I have noticed that sometimes the carriage returns and linefeeds on the Notepad are carried over. So if the width of the Notepad happens to be narrower than that of this body, every line would be short and I would have to manually delete every CRLF in order to make the body look presentable. I can't reproduce it whenever I want to though. I wonder if anyone has come across such scenario. I had actually often encountered such experience in earlier versions of Windows.

I had seen it happen within the Windows system. Upon receipt of notification of your posting by email, I did a quick test. -I opened a Notepad on My Windows 7 x86 system. -I reduced the size of the Notepad window. -I then selected the whole email message and copied. -I pasted the text to the Notepad. -I saved it. -I enlarged the Notepad window to the full screen. -I found the length of each line of characters remained unchanged, i.e. the CRLF remained where it was when the windows was much smaller. -I then inserted some characters on some line. That particular line just got elongated by itself. For starters, I expect the paragraph adjusts itself to the size and shape of the window. It doesn't. If my memory serves me right I am not too sure though. The CRLFs seem to become hard once the file is saved. Such phenomenon never happens with Microsoft Word. I wonder if this is a feature of Notepad. If it is I would like to know the definite behaviour of CRLF. To date I am still too sure when and where the CRLF would become fixed.

Turn off Word Wrap and see if that fixes your issue. A better solution may to be to use Windows WordPad or a third party solution such as Notepad++. Personally, I use Word 2010 for editing and proofing.

I never liked notepad. When Windows 95 gave us WordPad I loved it and copied it to my NT machines. I have used WordPad whenever I could ever since.

Turn off Word Wrap and see if that fixes your issue. A better solution may to be to use Windows WordPad or a third party solution such as Notepad++. Personally, I use Word 2010 for editing and proofing. That's no good if I turn off the Word Wrap. I don't like to see one paragraph one line. It is more natural to see the paragraphs spill downwards and I only need to scroll in one direction. I do have Notepad++ installed on my system for programming use. I had supposed the Windows Notepad among all other similar programs would take the least memory of the system. I hardly use Wordpad but Word if I need similar functions. I don't know when and where I need or should use Wordpad. All the time I have tried to use the right tool for the right job. I never want to overkill.

I never liked notepad. When Windows 95 gave us WordPad I loved it and copied it to my NT machines. I have used WordPad whenever I could ever since. Perhaps I should do from now onwards as what you have done, use WordPad instead. Then Notepad is redundant. It doesn't need to exist. I thank you for your suggestion.

Hi, I suspect it is a forum issue. Did it occur in other third party forums? Meanwhile, you can post here to get more insights. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/usingforumsNiki Han TechNet Community Support

This problem does not always happen. I've just done a different test and the same test again and the problem didn't happen. There must have been a bug somewhere, or what they call a feature by design.