How to Enable Status Bar in Notepad on Windows 11 [Tutorial]
12How to Enable Status Bar in Notepad on Windows 11 [Tutorial]
If you use Notepad frequently, you may have noticed that the Status Bar option under View is always greyed out or disabled. In this tutorial, we will see why and how you can enable Status Bar in Notepad – via the Notepad UI itself or with a registry tweak.
The Status Bar appears at the bottom of the Notepad and gives information like the number of Lines and columns; the text occupies. Now if you click on View, and you will see that the Status Bar option is greyed out. Click on Format and then uncheck the Word Wrap option. Now go back, and you will see that the Status Bar option is available and you can enable it.
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Notepad is a great text editor pre-loaded within the Windows OS. This small program offers basic text-editing features alongside intuitive options that are useful even for entry-level programing tasks.
Anyway, if you are using Notepad for the first time, or if you cannot understand why its Status Bar is disabled by default, you are in the right place.
In this tutorial, we will see how to enable the Notepad Status Bar when it’s not available, not working or greyed out. The troubleshooting steps listed below were tested on the Windows 10 platform.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.