When is the last time you used this ?
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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.
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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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.
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.
Years ago, but I remember that it was much better at opening broken docs than word
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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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:
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.
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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Notepad++ is my preferred text editor
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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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.
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
