Basically, my job is a web researcher getting details of groups/organisations/companies that offer services tailored to physically and mentally disabled people and their carers, friends and family.

Part of the data entry process involves putting in the search tags. Currently I am just browsing the sites as I go along and typing any relevant terms into notepad in the corner. Each word is seperated by a comma and space.

Some sites, being huge, end up with me entering the same word twice etc. I was wondering if there is a notepad out there that makes it quick and easy (like a button press) to sort contents alphabetically.

At the moment I am waiting till the end, and if necessary, saving as a .csv, opening in excel and sorting, and saving it again before opening in notepad, deleting any duplicates, and pasting into the data entry form!

Aye, problem with that is the footprint on the screen, At the moment its quite nice having a relatively small window that doesnt obscure much of the text I am reading whilst typing keywords

Each word is seperated by a comma and space.

Some sites, being huge, end up with me entering the same word twice etc. I was wondering if there is a notepad out there that makes it quick and easy (like a button press) to sort contents alphabetically.

Shove it into a database and sort from that. There used to be an odd integrated package that allowed you to treat documents as database or spreadsheets and sort them but I cant remember the name, its probably died anyway.

There is also notepad2 and notepad++ which will do what you are wanting both free and not much bigger than notepad itself

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Why not get a bigger monitor? :]

But seriously, my Dell widescreen is plenty big enough for a normal size browser window and Excel / any other app open at the same time

Notepad++ should allow you to sort alphabetically unless I have a plugin running for it, will double check that.

Although what you could do is put your list into notepad and then when you are done, copy it over to the likes of OpenOffice Writer or MS Word and then sort it alphabetically from there.