Create a Taskbar Shortcut for Notepad in Windows 8 to Help to Create HTML Web Pages

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You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to create a taskbar shortcut for Notepad so that it is easy to quickly edit your HTML documents.

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   To create the shortcut, we need to move the cursor to the taskbar and move to the far left to the Windows icon

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   Now, we left-click the Windows icon

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   Alternatively, we press the Windows key on the keyboard. The key is next to the space bar. Let's activate the "Start" menu now by clicking the icon or pressing the key.

   

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   We need to click the down arrow at the bottom of the "Start" menu

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   This will take us to the applications area.

   

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   What we want to do now is go to the search bar and click it one time

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   Now, we type "note"

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   The Notepad application is the little blue notepad that comes up as the very first icon.

   

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   What we are going to do now is right-click on "Notepad" one time

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   Then, we click "Pin to taskbar" this will pin Notepad to the taskbar

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   We can press the "Esc" key once to go back to the "Apps" menu

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   We can press the "Esc" key again to go back to the desktop

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    Now, we move the cursor down to the taskbar

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    We will see that the Notepad icon will be added to our taskbar.

    

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    Click the Notepad icon once to open the Notepad application

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    The window will be labeled "Untitled - Notepad".

    

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    We close the window by clicking the red box with the white "X" at the upper right-hand side

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