How to Edit Templates using NoteTab Light 

NoteTab Light is a freeware multi-file text editor useful for editing templates. It allows all the files in a template to be opened at once and performs search and replace functions within all the files of one template simultaneously. Great for changing background and text color throughout an entire template, adding image and sound links, or changing graphic or sound file types.

To install NoteTab Light
1. Connect to the Internet and use your Web browser to go to http://www.notetab.com/index.php.

2. Download and install NoteTab Light accourding to the instructions there.

To run NoteTab Light
Right-click on the NoteTab Light icon on the Desktop and select Open, 
or click Start => Programs => NoteTab Light => NoteTab Light.

To open a template:
1. Copy (drag and drop) the desired template from the Template CD-ROM onto your desktop.  

2. Run NoteTab Light (right-click on the NoteTab Light icon on the Desktop and select Open, or click Start => Programs => NoteTab Light => NoteTab Light.)

3. If there are any files open from previous sessions, pull down File and select "Close All Documents".

4. Select File => Open from within NoteTab Light.

5. Click on the "Look in:" menu and select Desktop.

6. Click on the desired template and click Open. This displays all the files in the template folder.

7. Hold down the ctrl key on the keyboard and click on each file in the template that you want to edit.  To open a contiguous range of files, click on the first file, then hold down the shift key while clicking on the last file.  For example, to edit pages 1- 30, click on "page1", then shift-click on "page30".

8. Click Open.  

9. To switch between one open file and another, click on the gray tabs across the top of the window.

To edit a particular file:
1. Click on the row of gray tabs across the top of the window to select and display the desired file.

2. Edit it just like any text editor: you can delete, re-type, Copy and Paste, replace, etc.

To Search and Replace text across all the open files.
1. Pull down the Edit menu and select Replace.  

2. Click All Documents under Scope.

3.  Type the text you want to replace into "Find what" and type the text you want to replace it with into "Replace with". For example, to change the background color on all pages to dark gray, replace <body> with <body BGCOLOR="#808080">. (See "Customizing Templates" for more ideas).

4. Click Replace All. 

To Save the edited files:
1. To save the file that is currently displayed in NoteTab Light, select File => Save.

2. To save all the open files at once, select File => Save All.

3.  To close all the files at once,  pull down File and select "Close All Documents".

(c) Tom O'Haver, March 2008