WordPad

WordPad is a small, compact word processor by Microsoft with some formatting options. However, it does not nearly as many features as other word processing programs from office packages.

Windows WordPad

Since Windows 95 WordPad is shipped with all versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. WordPad is the successor of Microsoft Write, which was included in earlier versions of Windows. As a holdover from that time can still invoke WordPad 8 with the command " write" on Windows.

WordPad was published in the delivery of Windows 95 MFC sample as source code, which is still downloadable today.

From Windows 95 to Windows Vista, the engines were RichEdit 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1 used since Windows XP SP2 and Vista updates for RichEdit 4.1 was used.

In the Windows 7 version it has been completely redesigned. Thus, the known from Office 2007 Ribbon interface was installed. But you already looks like the one in Microsoft Office 2010. Moreover WordPad has been extended by some features, there are also now more file formats (see below ) support.

File Formats

In addition to pure text files in ANSI ( Windows format / ISO 8859 ) and ASCII ( "MS -DOS format ", as opposed to Notepad) can WordPad files in the universal common Rich Text Format ( RTF) process, its main format. Since Windows XP Unicode is supported. In this example, writing Windows Server 2000 UTF- 16BE UTF- 16LE, and Windows 7. In Windows 7, a UTF -8 formatted text file is read correctly, with a simple "Save" but as a " text file " ( = ANSI) written. The "Save As " and select " Unicode" UTF- 16LE a file is written.

Starting with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 SP2, the read - support for the native file format of its predecessor Microsoft Write (. Wri files) as well as for Microsoft Word 6 files has been switched off for security reasons. You can be temporarily enabled via the registry again, but then to be opened from trusted sources only files.

As of version in Windows 7, it is able to Office Open XML (. Docx ), and OpenDocument (. Odt ) to read and write. Documents in other formats are opened as plain text documents, and may not display as expected.

User interface

Version 6.1 on Windows 7

Version 6 on Windows 8

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