I found a nice freeware tool that expands the functionality of the Windows 7 Sticky Notes. With it you can have notes not only on the desktop but also at every application window you would like to. The tool is from bitsmithy.com an can be downloaded from their website http://bitsmithy.com

Is there a way to cycle through them with a shortcut, in an alt-tab kind of way

thanks
jamie

@Jamie
Updated: Thanks to Matt, by using Ctrl-Tab, you can cycle through them.

Is there a way to change the font itself? I’ve noticed that if I paste text from another application (say WordPad) into a Sticky Note, the formatting is retained along with font. I wonder if there is some way to select a font in Sticky Notes.

@Jamie
Yes, CTRL-TAB

Very helpful !

Thank you.

hi !

there’s way to change it:

In the registry, you can change the font that Windows thinks is Segoe Print – the font of Sticky Notes.

1 Start

2 Run – type regedit

3 Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionFonts

4 on right pane Find “Segoe Print (TrueType)” and “Segoe Print Bold (TrueType)” – double click (don’t forget to change both – one by one)

optional – you can delete other Segoe fonts – select(one click), press Del, press Yes

5 Change the value(double click on font) to the file name of any other font that you wish to use that is already installed – for “times new roman” it should be times.ttf .

6 Restart the computer.

Enjoy !

Yoshida, I really appreciate the tip you’ve provided for our readers. It works like a charm. Thank you once again. =)

thanks for the shortcut list for sticky notes — you said that there’s a way to change font color, but i didn’t see how to do that.

If you put the text into word for example, change the colour there and then put the text back into sticky notes it will be that colour still.

VERY helpful…many thanks!

Same thank you to Forrestj also. :>)

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