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Another Stupid Question......

Discussion in 'Software' started by Oooops!, Sep 13, 2005.

Oooops! MajorGeek

Hi!

Ok, I promise, I'll stop posting my newbie questions for a while, they just seem to be coming to me all the sudden, lol.

What's the difference between NotePad and WordPad?
Thanks!

Oooops!, Sep 13, 2005

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DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

Wordpad is fairly similar to Notepad, but gives more options in formatting text, eg. bold & italics text, changes to font, size, colour of text, create bulleted lists, center and justify paragraphs. Wordpad is a simple form of the full blown MS Word.

Notepad is a good choice for very basic text documents that require no formatting ( see above ), also used for HTML.

DavidGP, Sep 13, 2005

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SoloTraveller Private First Class

Notepad is used to generate basic ASCII text notes; Wordpad is used to generate Rich-Text Format (RTF) documents (bold, typefaces, etc).

SoloTraveller, Sep 13, 2005

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Oooops! MajorGeek

Thanks Halo and SoloTraveller, great explanations!

So, WordPad could be used instead of WordPerfect for simple documents?
Thanks!

Oooops!, Sep 13, 2005

#4
Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan

Yes, Wordpad is basically a very basic word processor.

It's like Micro$$oft Word, or WordPerfect, but with less features.

Insomniac, Sep 13, 2005

#5
Oooops! MajorGeek

Thank you!

Oooops!, Sep 13, 2005

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