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WordPad Pros and Cons

Wordpad pros:

fast
gratis
somewhat easy to learn

only somewhat easy to learn. It must be one of the simplest word Processors in existence, anything that you can do in it is very easy and requires only a few clicks.

somewhat compatible file format

While it doesn't support many more advanced Word Processor files, the rtf file format it uses by default is compatible with virtually everything. It also correctly supports Unix, Mac, and DOS line endings, and can be set to write files in any of the formats.

Wordpad cons:

non-free
no semantic markup

This is a fault of the .rtf format. The RTF files generated by Word are far more messey than those produced by WordPad because they try to make the file look like a word document, and so have huge amounts of extra markup, just llike word HTML does.

no structure

so as the symbol activator pick symbol it will copy and you wont hav eto type EX:⟨₳฿₵₡₡₢$₫₯₠€₣ƒ₴₭₤ℳ₥₦⟩

random reading

my windows vista randomly started reading my wordpad document out loud in a monotone voice. it actually pronounced everything right and paused at the end of sentences. however, i have no idea how i instigated this. could someone please tell me what i did? - kate —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.104.26.250 (talk) 18:38, 24 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Well I'd like to remind you that there's a lot of forums and Yahoo! Answers for you to ask these types of questions.

One tip: Google "Accessibility options in VIsta and SPeech options."

Hope I've helped out.

Tangmeisterjr (talk) 01:13, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tables

Word pad can display tables if they are present in the rtf file, it simply has no means of editing them.

Carcinogens —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.211.33.106 (talk) 04:50, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WordPad in Windows 7 and Beyond

I have added an entry called 'Future versions' where I mention the redesign of WordPad shown in Windows 7 M3. I also added an image already uploaded to Wikipedia from the Windows 7 wiki. Dom (talk) 10:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Handy hint: I've found that it's possible to copy over the old XP-era wordpad.exe to a Windows 7 computer and use it there in preference to the new version. I like to use WordPad for quick-'n-dirty editing, and The Ribbon is counterproductive here. WHPratt (talk) 17:58, 4 October 2012 (UTC) Update: I copied a 2008 executable of WordPad, Version 22H2, to my Windows 10 desktop, and it works as advertised, with menus but no ribbon. The new version is still available to me as an alternative. WHPratt (talk) 16:28, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WordPad in Windows 7 seems capable of handling huge .txt files, ones that are too large for MS Office Word, Notepad or Notepad++ (v. 6.6.9) to accept. I have had to search a 585MB text file and only WordPad would accept it. martinev (talk) 16:06, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WordPad prior to Windows 7 could open Word .doc files, but the newer version can only open .docx and NOT .doc. MS is admitting the complexity in their .doc format! Family Guy Guy (talk) 15:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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This is an automated message regarding an image used on this page. The image File:Wordpad icon (Windows 7).png, found on WordPad, has been nominated for deletion because it does not meet Wikipedia image policy. Please see the image description page for more details. If this message was sent in error (that is, the image is not up for deletion, or was left on the wrong talk page), please contact this bot's operator. STBotI (talk) 15:20, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Repeated image?

Should one of the images of wordpad on Windows 7 be removed or changed? There is no need for the same image twice. Twistor96 (talk) 23:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

new america today is —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.41.69.40 (talk) 16:40, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? Anyway, yeah, I think it's repeated. It would be nice to have a pre-windows 7 image. 190.53.202.228 (talk) 05:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopedic?

Is it encyclopedic to have pro's and con's, even at the discussion page? Note that's not even a discussion, it just sits there almighty-ly. We are not PCMag, or some software review webpage. A section like that could be included, if we get the proper sources to back it up. And still, we would need to use "some people, including XXXXX and YYYY", etc... 190.53.202.228 (talk) 05:16, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TangLab (talk • contribs) 01:14, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BEE GEE AUTOMOBILE--124.253.25.148 (talk) 09:45, 15 July 2016 (UTC)Italic text[reply]

Is WordPad a newer version of Windows Write?

It's executable is write.exe, so perhaps it is the newer version of Write.exe, but with a newer name and icon. The source code is available in the Windows 1.0 leaked source as well as the Windows 2000 and NT leaked source, as proof. Duplicate discussion is here on the Write article: [1] Family Guy Guy (talk) 15:57, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I need to have the word pad icon. It just went away, can you please put it back I need it. michelle hanington — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.171.167.155 (talk) 18:12, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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WordPad Unicode support

Unicode support for WordPad was available since Windows 2000 (which actually implemented it in almost all of its applications), not XP as stated in the article (however, it is widely known that XP was built on top of 2000). Its succeeding Windows Millennium indeed didn`t have Unicode support in WordPad since it was based on the legacy Windows architecture instead of NT. --Sds34343 (talk) 12:07, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Deprecation of the feature maybe include in the History section?

Proposed addition of recent information about Microsoft's announcement on WordPad's deprecation in Windows, supported by a relevant external source ([2]https://geeksramp.com/microsoft-is-removing-wordpad-from-windows/), to be included in the History section instead in the beginning of the WordPad Wikipedia article "On 1 September 2023, Microsoft announced that WordPad is now deprecated and will be removed in a future Windows update." 103.217.133.79 (talk) 12:21, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's now in both places. How is that a problem? Peter Brown (talk) 19:07, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]