That's the sad fate of fifth wheels. Or when you are neither Word nor Notepad.
Yeah, I remember Microsoft Works.
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
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Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#72This is deeply unfortunate. WordPad is by far the best implementation of RTF anywhere.
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#73The natural upgrade for WordPad did never come: basic html or markdown editing.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which do you suggest? If it doesn't have rich text support, isn't lighter than anything in the OpenOffice family, and is as unstable as AbiWord, don't bother saying it.
Calligra Words looks nice. I trust anything KDE.
Is Calligra still under active development?
The last stable point release was over 3 years ago.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#75> We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf
Doesn’t Office require a paid license on top of the Windows license, unlike WordPad?
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#76> We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf Doesn’t Office require a paid license on top of the Windows license, unlike WordPad?
Bundling a word processor is anti competitive based on all the objections to Microsoft bundling anything else. So what if you have to pay for it? Wasn't that the whole point of making this fair? You can buy any word processor, or find a free one.
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#78I'm always sad to see applications go (especially if the recommended alternative is a paid software), but did that thing ever work properly? In the past decade I used Windows only when someone held a gun to my head, but before that I remember that WordPad always messed up all documents I have ever opened: weird page and line breaks, picture and textbox formatting all over the place, and saving a document was a good way to prevent future reading.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#79> We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf Doesn’t Office require a paid license on top of the Windows license, unlike WordPad?
Bundling a word processor is anti competitive based on all the objections to Microsoft bundling anything else. So what if you have to pay for it? Wasn't that the whole point of making this fair? You can buy any word processor, or find a free one.
Like they give a fuck. They've gone back to forcing use of their own browser and others.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#80> We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf Doesn’t Office require a paid license on top of the Windows license, unlike WordPad?
Install LibreOffice.
If you were using WordPad before, LibreOffice will be a fine replacement for your purposes.