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Sticky Note For Windows 7

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Many people love using sticky notes to keep track of reminders and random bits of information. Like many other things in the physical world, sticky notes have a virtual counterpart.

When Microsoft added 'Sticky Notes' to Windows Vista, the company was only catching up to what users had been using third-party programs to do for years. Just like physical sticky notes, the Windows version provides a useful way to quickly jot down reminders or quick facts.

Windows Vista

If you're still using Windows Vista, you'll find sticky notes as a gadget in the Windows sidebar. Open the sidebar by going to Start > All programs > Accessories > Windows Sidebar. Once the sidebar is open, right-click and select Add Gadgets and select Notes.

Now you're ready to go with 'sticky notes' in Vista. You can either keep them in the sidebar or drag notes onto the regular desktop.

Windows 7

If you're using Windows 7 here's how to find Sticky Notes (see the image at the top of this article):

  1. Click Start.

  2. At the bottom of the screen will be a window that says Search programs and files.' Place your cursor into that window and type Sticky Notes.

  3. The Sticky Notes program appears at the top of the popup window. Click the name of the program to open it.

Once open, a sticky note appears on your screen. At that point, you can just start typing. To add a new note, click the + (plus sign) in the top left corner; it will add a new note, without deleting or overwriting the previous note. To delete a note, click the X in the top right corner.

For those with Windows 7 tablet PCs (ones on which you can draw with a stylus), Sticky Notes are even better. You can jot down your information just by writing with your stylus.

Sticky Notes also last over reboots. So if you type out a note to yourself to, say, buy donuts for the afternoon staff meeting, that note will still be there when you power up your computer the next day.

If you find yourself using Sticky Notes a lot you might want to add it to the taskbar for easy access. The taskbar is the bar at the very bottom of your screen and contains the Start button and other frequently-accessed applications.

Here's what you need to do:

  1. Right-clickthe Sticky Notes icon. This will bring up a menu of actions you can take called a context menu.

  2. Left-click Pin to Taskbar.

This will add the Sticky Notes icon to the taskbar, giving you instant access to your notes anytime.

If yellow just isn't your color, you can also change the note color by hovering your mouse over a note, right-clicking it, and selecting a different color from the context menu. Windows 7 offers six different colors including blue, green, pink, purple, white, and the aforementioned yellow.

While the Sticky Notes applet may not be the most exciting feature in Microsoft Windows 7, there are actually a number of situations where this little applet can come in handy. And, believe it or not, there's a lot more to Sticky Notes than meets the eye.

I must admit that when I first looked at the Sticky Notes applet in Windows 7, I really wasn't that impressed and promptly forgot about it. However, I recently reached for a real sticky note and discovered that somebody had absconded with the last pad of 3M Post-it Notes from my desk drawer. With no other option, I clicked the Start button, typed sticky in the Start Search box, and launched the Sticky Notes applet.

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Ever since that day, I have been using the Sticky Notes applet here and there, discovering its features and its shortcomings, and of course learning about workarounds. In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, I'll show you how to take advantage of the Sticky Notes applet in Windows 7.

This blog post is also available in PDF format in a TechRepublic download.

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The basics

Using Sticky Notes is pretty easy. Once you launch the applet as I explained above, a blank Sticky Note will appear on the desktop. You can drag the note anywhere on the desktop that you want. You can then just start typing your note. As you type (Figure A), the note will automatically increase in length up to a certain point and then a scroll bar will appear. However, you can resize the note anyway you wish.

Figure A

As you type, the note will increase in length.

You can change a note's color by right-clicking inside a note and selecting one of the available color choices. To create a new note, just click the '+ button' in the upper left corner of an existing note or press [Ctrl]+[N]. To delete a note, just click the 'x button' in the upper right corner or press [Ctrl]+[D].

Sticky

When you launch Sticky Notes, you'll see that it has a button on the Taskbar. As such, you can easily minimize all notes on the desktop by clicking that button. Likewise you can restore them by clicking that button.

When you create a note, the Sticky Notes applet automatically saves the note. This means that you can close the Sticky Notes applet without fear of losing your notes. Just right-click on the button and select the Close Window command, as shown in Figure B. When you re-launch the applet, all your notes reappear.

Figure B

You can right-click on the button to close the Sticky Notes applet without fear of losing your notes.

Changing font workaround

If you are like me, one of the first things you'll want to change is the default font. While Segoe Print is amusing at first, since it resembles perfect handwriting, it gets old quickly. Unfortunately, there isn't a standard way to change the font. However, because Sticky Notes is font aware, you can change the font by copying and pasting text in the font that you want to use from another word processing applet.

For example, as you can see in Figure C, I pasted text in Cambria and Arial into a note. The nice thing is that once you paste in a new font, that font will become the default font for that particular note and you can continue typing in that font.

Figure C

Using the workaround, you can change the font.

However, any new note that you create will default to the Segoe Print font. While using the copy-and-paste method of changing the font isn't the most convenient, it is an easy enough workaround, especially if you just copy and paste one word from a previous note.

Formatting text

The font shortcoming aside, there are lots of ways that you can format text in a note. You just select the text you want to format and use the keystroke combinations listed in Table A.

Table A

FormatKeystroke Combination
BoldCtrl+B
ItalicCtrl+I
StrikethroughCtrl+T
UnderlineCtrl+U
Increase Font SizeCtrl+Shift+>
Decrease Font SizeCtrl+Shift+<
Align Text LeftCtrl+L
Align Text RightCtrl+R
CenterCtrl+E
Bulleted/Numbered ListsCtrl+Shift+L

Reviving the Delete Note confirmation

When you delete a note, you'll see the confirmation dialog box shown in Figure D. Chances are good that after a few times, you'll want to select the Don't Display This Message Again check box. However, you really shouldn't because when you delete a note, it's really gone. In other words, it is not sent to the Recycle Bin. Without this confirmation, it is really easy to accidentally delete a note you meant to keep.

Figure D

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When you delete a note, you'll be prompted to confirm the operation.

If you do select the Don't Display This Message Again check box and then later want the confirmation back, you can revive it with a simple registry edit. To launch the Registry Editor, click the Start button, type Regedit in the Start Search box, and press [Enter]. When the UAC dialog box appears, respond appropriately. When the Registry Editor appears, navigate to the following folder:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppletsStickyNotes

Then, double-click the PROMPT_ON_DELETE value and set the Value Data to 1, as shown in Figure E, and click OK. To complete the operation, close the Registry Editor.Sticky Note For Windows 7

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Figure E

You can revive the confirmation prompt with a simple registry edit.

Make a backup

If you want to individually back up the Sticky Notes data file or just make sure that it is included in your regular backup routine, you'll need to know that the file is named StickyNotes.snt. You'll find this file in the folder

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Create a query to search notes

When you have a lot of notes in the Sticky Notes applet, they can overlap each other. This makes finding a particular note a bit difficult. Fortunately you can create a special query that will scan through the Windows Search Index and find all your notes and display them in a neatly organized Search Results window. To do so, you'll create a shortcut that uses the search-ms protocol.

Right-click on the desktop and select New Shortcut. When you see the Create Shortcut window, type the following command into the text box:

search-ms:displayname=Search%20Results%20in%20Sticky%20Notes%20(Windows%20Sticky%20Notes)&crumb=&crumb=location:C%3A%5CUsers%5CUSER%20NAME%5CSearches%5CSticky%20Notes%20(Windows%20Sticky%20Notes).searchconnector-ms

Of course, it is easier to simply copy the above command and paste it into Notepad. You can then replace USER%20NAME with your account name. For example, Greg%20Shultz.

When you look at this command, it looks like a mess, but you just need to understand that the %## codes are special codes for standard characters. For instance, %20 = space, %3A = :, and %5C =

You can now click Next, name your shortcut, and click Finish. When you run the shortcut, you'll see an Internet Explorer security warning and can just click Allow. You'll then see a Search Results window like the one shown in

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Figure F.

Figure F

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Your note will appear in a Search Results window.

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