Advantages: A free word processing program that comes with Microsoft Windows. Disadvantages: Not as advanced or sophisticated as Microsoft word.
...for the operating system) with Microsoft Windows 95 and above. It is a word processing program and is great if you don't
want to pay out for an expensive word processing application like Word. There is
enough there to layout a nice looking document, but if your looking to write a document with columns and clip art, you won't find it with WordPad.
-- What do I use it for? --
I wrote my first ever story with this program when I had my first personal ... ...the three.
I have Microsoft Office so I don't really need to ever use WordPad, because I much prefer Microsoft Word, but the most useful feature of WordPad that I like is the possibility of finding and replacing text automatically. When I work on my web page and I need to change links quickly, I can open the html in WordPad and then find and replace what I need without have to take loads of time up on doing each part separately. WordPad displays ...
johnsy32 04.02.2005
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Advantages: Free with MS Windows XP(and probably others). Disadvantages: Too simple for most TEXT processing.
Microsoft Windows normally offer 2 free text-processing packages with their operating systems (now XP). Notepad and WORDPAD. The latter is the more sophisticated of the 2 both of them fairly simple. Today we consider WORDPAD.
THE PROGRAM (WORDPAD)
Microsoft help files talk about the product as a program so best we start to consider it this way. WordPad has most of the basic capabilities of a word processor. I’ve outlined the basic features below:
... ...insert bullets, align text and possibly change the language (to Greek or Hebrew amongst others...I’ve yet to sort this out - can you help?).
- YOU CAN USE AND INSERT TABLES in your file.
- BASIC PAGE SET UP - e.g. margins. The product is not to good for large documents.
- YOU CAN SAVE FILES AS WORD DOCUMENTS - this allows you to edit files even though you don’t have a program.
- YOU CAN EDIT HTML and WEBPAGES - Notepad maybe better for this.
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JeffreyB 28.02.2005
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