![]() It may look a bit confusing if you used a lot of those fancy formatting shortcuts I talked about earlier, so go to “Format -> Word Wrap” to make it more legible, and press Ctrl F to look for specific text that you deleted.Īlternatively, if you regularly make restore points on your PC, you can right-click the.snt file using Notepad, and you’ll see text from your deleted notes. In File Explorer, navigate to “C:\Users\Rob\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes”.The option to sync your notes to the cloud has for the most part replaced the rudimentary options to back them up and retrieve them locally.īut if you used Sticky Notes before its big 3.0 update last year, there’s still a slim chance you can retrieve notes in the ‘snt’ file left over from the old version of Sticky Notes. Sticky Notes are almost as disposable as actual Post-Its stuck to the frame of your monitor. Ctrl Shift L – Press once for bullet-points, 2x for a numbered list, 3x for Small Alpha list, and so on through a whole number of list formats.But if you’re familiar with your MS Word formatting shortcuts, then you can also apply them here. Open Sticky Notes, and go to the main window listing all your notes (if it’s closed, open it by clicking the three-dotted icon at the top right corner of any of your notes then click ‘Notes list’).īy default, text in Sticky Notes appears in a simple, scrawly font, and it doesn’t look like there are any options to format it. You’ll need a Microsoft account for this, as well as Microsoft’s excellent note-taking app OneNote, which you can get for all major PC and mobile platforms.Īssuming these things are in order, you can sync your sticky notes across devices. One of the newest and best features of Sticky Notes is the ability to sync your notes up to the cloud. Resize a note by left-click-dragging any of its edges.Change the color of a note by clicking the three-dotted icon that appears when you hover over the top right corner of a note.Create separate notes by clicking the small ‘ ’ symbol that appears when you hover the mouse at the top left of corner the Sticky Note window.Here are the basics of how to use Sticky Notes: If you find this list gets in the way, you can close it, and just use the individual Sticky Notes windows instead. Sticky Notes comes pre-installed from Windows 7 onwards and can easily be accessed by clicking Start and typing “sticky notes.” When you first open it, from Sticky Notes 3.0 onwards you’ll have a main app listing all your notes, with a Search bar at the top that lets you quickly find specific things within them. So I’m still basically confused as to why the icons on my flyout menu don’t work.Here are our top tips to make the most of Windows’ in-built note-scribbling app. Right clicking on the yellow Sticky Notes icon, I see this: However, if I click any of the white icons on the flyout menu, I get the missing shortcut message: On my start menu (the Win10 one), I see this when I right click on the white Sticky Notes icon: However, if I click on any of the icons on the flyout (which are all white), they don’t work. When I click the yellow Sticky Notes icon, it brings up the Notes list. I now have this in my Classic Shell Windows menu.Īt first glance, it would seem that I now have the flyout. I signed in to my Microsoft account
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