How to Change Sticky Notes Font Size, Color and Other Formatting. This tutorial explains how to change font size, color and other formatting or styling in Sticky Notes as a Windows gadget in Windows 78. Sticky notes is one of the most widely used gadgets in Windows since Windows Vista. Even in Windows 88. Normal fonts formatting in sticky notes isnt enough if you are looking to jot down a large number of notes. You will sometimes need to bold, italic or even underline an important word or a phrase. You may also want to increasedecrease the font size of the texts in your sticky notes, applying bullets onto the phrases or align them accordingly. This post will show you how you can do all these with just a few keyboard shortcuts. By default, Windows Sticky Notes will be installed and came along with your Windows as you first launch your Windows 7Vista. If you are using a sticky note downloaded from the gadget gallery that is not the default Windows sticky notes, the methods in how to change sticky notes font size, colors and formatting in this tutorial may not work with other sticky notes. In this tip, we will show you how to format text, change the text size, text color, or add bullets to make a list in Sticky Notes by using keyboard shortcuts in Windows 78Vista. To format a word or a phrase in sticky notes, highlight the texts that you want them to be formatted while modifying or creating a sticky note. Windows 7 Gadgets Sticky Notes' title='Windows 7 Gadgets Sticky Notes' />Windows Desktop Gadgets called Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. It was introduced with Windows Vista, in. Further reading Create and personalize handwritten notes using Windows Journal. Windows 7 Help home. Microsoft Corporation Customize the appearance of a Journal note. Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Full Version Torrent. This list comprises of some of the best free Sticky Notes applications for Windows 1087 also covers sticky note browser extensions for Chrome Firefox. Use the keyboard shortcuts listed below to apply formats of how you want the texts to be. Keyboard Shortcuts. Description. CtrlB Bold text. CtrlI Italic text. CtrlT Strikethrough. CtrlU Underlined text. CtrlShiftL Bulleted press once or Numbered press twice list. CtrlShift Increased text size. CtrlShiftlt Decreased text size. CtrlA Select all. Freeware Files. com Download free sticky notes and desktop pads. CtrlShiftA Toggles all caps. CtrlL Left aligns text. CtrlR Right aligns text. CtrlE Centers text. CtrlShiftL Small Alpha list 3rd, Capital Alpha list 4th, small roman 5th,Capital roman 6thCtrlScroll Wheel IncreaseDecrease text size. Ctrl1 Single space lines. Ctrl2 Double space lines. Ctrl5 Set 1. 5 line spacing. Ctrl Subscript. CtrlShift Superscript. CtrlZ Undo. CtrlY Redo. CtrlX Cut. CtrlC Copy. CtrlV Paste. Please also take note that when copying away your texts from your sticky notes, the formatting may not be the same when pasted else where. Besides, if youve accidentally deleted your sticky notes or if they simply went missing, the formatting of the texts in your sticky notes may make it harder to read from a recovered text documents as they also comes with all the tags that do the styling. How to Recover Deleted Sticky Notes in Windows 78. This post explains how to recover deleted sticky notes widget in Windows 878. Vista if you were previously using it as one of your gadgets and it was accidentally deleted or simply went missing. This tutorial, however, will only guide you to retrieve whatever data you have had in your sticky notes by opening the saved data using a text program such as the Wordpad. There isnt anyway to import the old saved stick notes into a new one. This method will also comes in handy if your Windows was dead and you want to recover whatever you can from your sticky notes, provided if your hard disk is still accessible from another computer. Please take note that the recovered sticky notes data will appear to be messy depending on how fancy the texts in your notes used to be. There will be tags before and after the text or a phrase for each type of styling you used on your sticky notes. However, opening the saved data using a Rich Text Format supported document reader may help sort things out. If youve ever deleted your sticky notes by accident, or simply want to recover your notes from a dead Windows, there will still be something of a ghost remaining in the file where Sticky Notes save the notes to. This file can be found in App. DataMicrosoftSticky NotesSticky. Notes. snt Copy and paste this directory line into any explorer window, and then press Enter. This file will not be deleted as long as your hard disk isnt dead or formatted. Beware that some anti virus programs will detect it as a threat hence removing it. You may want to first temporary switch off your anti virus program or whatever security program you are using before accessing to the file. Open the file with Word. Pad, notepad or whatever text reader you have. If you have some heavy formatting in your previous sticky notes, you may see lots of unknown tags. Then you will have to deal with RTF Rich Text Format yourself. Try to open it using a variety of other documenttext readers. Some may be able to render the formats and return results as how they were in your sticky notes. Addon As far as we know, there isnt a way to replace the recovered sticky notes with a new note. If you know how to do it, we will be more than happy to hear the trick from you.