1. Open Start

2. Search for Command Prompt (or Terminal) and click the top result to launch the command-line console

(Quick tip: You can also use the Microsoft Edit app in PowerShell.)

3. (Option 1) Type the following command from the file location to open the file directly into Edit and press Enter:

Edit TEXT-FILENAME.txt

4. (Option 2) Type the following command to run the text editor and press Enter: Edit

5. Use the “Alt + F” keyboard shortcut to open the “File” menu and choose the “Open File” option.

6. Select the file and double-click on it or press Enter to open it.

After you complete the steps, you can edit the text file like you would any other editor. The “Edit” menu allows you to access tools like undo, redo, cut, copy, and paste.

In addition, you can access the find and replace features from this menu.

If you want to enable the word wrap feature, you can use the “Alt + Z” keyboard shortcut or find the option in the “View” menu.

You can also save the file using the “Ctrl + S” keyboard shortcut. The editor doesn’t have a “Save as” shortcut, but the option is available from the “File” menu. Microsoft Edit is a convenient and simple text editor that the company created because of the lack of such an editor for the command-line interface (CLI).

Since this is an open-source project, anyone can grab the source code from GitHub to modify and improve it.