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    Eytukan
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    thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

    Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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      thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

      Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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      dandy72
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      I find it's generally "good enough" to view/edit text that includes formatting, on machines where I haven't installed Office--on those occasions where I actually want to keep said formatting. Otherwise, yeah, Notepad it is...

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        thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

        Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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        Marc Clifton
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        It's been years. Even then, I only used it as a last ditch because it was the only thing on the computer and I needed some basic text formatting for something simple. Marc

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          thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

          Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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          Lost User
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          I use it regularly on customer's Systems which do not have installed Office to document... Document usually means Screen shots of error Messages... And I always wondering how big the wordpad files are :sigh: :laugh:

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            thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

            Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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            Jacquers
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            The other day when I accidentally opened it instead of Word :laugh:

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              thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

              Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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              glennPattonWork3
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              This morning, its great for flat ASCII... :)

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                thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

                Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                kmoorevs
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                Not that long actually...accidently tried to open a word document on the server. I was surprised that it actually opened with wordpad. Now, notepad I use all the time. :)

                "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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                  thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

                  Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                  Wordpad is great for rtf files, which is the same as the formatting in a .net rich text box. (although both only handle a subset of the full rtf spec.) Can cut and paste between them keeping formatting. Learned this when doing a basic report writer for a customer, RTF files are basically a type of meta tagged text file, perfect for building report templates that can be used without the need for interop or similar. Teamed with a virtual pdf printer app produces nice fully formatted reports from non office installed servers and even the most underpowered pcs (i.e. those that choke on office/interop and over-featured report writer libraries.) Few years ago now, but got to the point where I could hand code RTF - including tables & graphics. Interestingly wordpad handles tables in rtf files but has no way to create or structurally alter them - clearly ms purposely hobbled wordpad'ss capabilities [to keep selling word]. Also interesting: create a small doc in wordpad and save it, will be 1 maybe 2 kb (and the source readable). Open and edit that doc with ms word and save as rtf, will become a huge file - totally bloated out and intelligible. Easy fix though: open it in wordpad and save it again cleans out the bloat.

                  Sin tack the any key okay

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                    thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

                    Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                    Jorgen Andersson
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                    Years ago, but I remember that it was much better at opening broken docs than word

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                      I use it regularly on customer's Systems which do not have installed Office to document... Document usually means Screen shots of error Messages... And I always wondering how big the wordpad files are :sigh: :laugh:

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                      dandy72
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                      Found the guy who puts screenshots in .doc files. Well, one of them anyway. At least they're not pictures that have been taken with a camera, then printed, then scanned, then faxed, then embedded as images in a zipped Word document that contains a PowerPoint file.

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                        thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

                        Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                        David Crow
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                        I use it weekly.

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                          I find it's generally "good enough" to view/edit text that includes formatting, on machines where I haven't installed Office--on those occasions where I actually want to keep said formatting. Otherwise, yeah, Notepad it is...

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                          pkfox
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                          Notepad++ is my preferred text editor

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                            Notepad++ is my preferred text editor

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                            dandy72
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                            Sure, I have Notepad++ as well, but it doesn't do even basic RTF (unless you're using some plug-in?)

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                              thing called "Wordpad" in Windows.

                              Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                              Graham Cottle
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                              Used it 20 years ago to edit a DLL where someone had hard coded a serial number in an expected response from a signal generator. Changed it to the customer's signal generator and was up and running. Turns out that a few months prior to this, I saw a colleague scrabbling around on various computers looking for some code and this was it. He had encountered the same problem but didn't own up and had left by the time I found the issue.

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                                Wordpad is great for rtf files, which is the same as the formatting in a .net rich text box. (although both only handle a subset of the full rtf spec.) Can cut and paste between them keeping formatting. Learned this when doing a basic report writer for a customer, RTF files are basically a type of meta tagged text file, perfect for building report templates that can be used without the need for interop or similar. Teamed with a virtual pdf printer app produces nice fully formatted reports from non office installed servers and even the most underpowered pcs (i.e. those that choke on office/interop and over-featured report writer libraries.) Few years ago now, but got to the point where I could hand code RTF - including tables & graphics. Interestingly wordpad handles tables in rtf files but has no way to create or structurally alter them - clearly ms purposely hobbled wordpad'ss capabilities [to keep selling word]. Also interesting: create a small doc in wordpad and save it, will be 1 maybe 2 kb (and the source readable). Open and edit that doc with ms word and save as rtf, will become a huge file - totally bloated out and intelligible. Easy fix though: open it in wordpad and save it again cleans out the bloat.

                                Sin tack the any key okay

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                                kmoorevs
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                                Excellent post! There may be something here I can use! Thanks! :)

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