Talk:WordPad
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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
[edit] 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).
[edit] Tables
Word pad can display tables if they are present in the rtf file, it simply has no means of editing them.
