Enable Status Bar in Notepad on Windows 10/8/7

If you use the Notepad frequently, you may have noticed that the Status Bar option under View is always greyed out or disabled. In this post we will see the reason for this and how you can enable Status Bar in Notepad - via the Notepad itself or with a registry tweak.

The Status Bar appear at the bottom of the Notepad and gives information like the number of lines and the number of columns, the text is occupying.

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.

 Enable Status Bar In Notepad 

You can via the Windows Registry force Notepad to always have the Status Bar enabled.
For this, press window key + R after that, Type regedit and navigate to the following key:

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad 

Here change the Status Bar DWORD value from 0 to 1. Press F5 to refresh the Registry.

Now open Notepad. You can see the Status Bar enabled.

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