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Originally Posted by Pisces
You can use Word if you like. But make sure you open the file as a text file (.txt) and also save it like that. Or else it might insert formatting code and treat is as it's native .doc or .docx format. Never do any changes in fonts, color or whatever. It won't save in a .txt file, or the game will consider it corrupt and go critical mass. The various extended options is something you DON'T want if you start editing game files.
Personally, Notepad has everything you need. It's tiny and opens quickly and has a nice and simply user interface. With the modern Windows versions it can even handle really large files.
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Actually, there are at least two important capabilities that Word (or any full-function word processor) has that Notepad lacks: Find/Replace within a selection and Change Case within a selection. Notepad will only do a global replace for the entire document, and won't manipulate case at all. Replacing all occurrences of a string within a selection is particularly useful when editing menu_1024_768.ini. Notepad goes off and changes every occurrence of the string in the entire file, which is often not what I want. As long as you use the Save function - NOT Save As - the plain-text formatting remains intact.