• macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wordpad is for looking at and editing rich text, not txt files. It’s not a big deal because no one uses rtf.

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      1 year ago

      Annoyingly enough, the other day got the first RTF file I’ve gotten in probably 20 years. To make matters worse, it was JSON that the customer decided should be sent as an RTF attachment to an email.

      Of course I run Linux on my work computer so I didn’t have wordpad anyway. I had to use a cli utility to convert it to text, then use vscode to properly format it, since he conversion removed all the indentation/spacing.

      If I never see another RTF file again, it’ll be too soon.

    • tabular@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Word is not included with Windows apprently so Wordpad is useful at work when I don’t have time to install LibreOffice.

    • M0oP0o
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      1 year ago

      Wordpad is for whatever people use it for, and that is mostly looking at files in some sort of text (words on a pad). My point is if microsoft removes the ability to open a text file then the consequences are on them.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, I would say notepad would be the bigger loss. But wordpad is still the default for people before they learn about things like notepad++

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            1 year ago

            Notepad is the default text editor on Windows. I’d be surprised if most people even knew WordPad existed.

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              1 year ago

              Interestingly enough I have seen a lot of new PCs that have Wordpad as default (mostly dells and some HPs).

              • macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                I have seen that too and the first thing you do is change it to notepad as wordpad isn’t good for text files

    • btaf45@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I like using it when I want to create a simple rtf document and not use a bloated Office.

      • Hello Hotel@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        as a replacement, markdown is your friend. you can learn the symbols or (harder option) find a markdown wyswyg editor program.

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          1 year ago

          Or, and hear me out on this, you create an unholy mixture of MD/HTML/Latex documents in a plaintext editor and then you use the Pandoc CLI to make it into a PDF/DOCX/website/whatever.

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      1 year ago

      Wordpad can also open most Word files. Even though I have Office, I open word files in wordpad all the time, because it’s so much faster to open. When I just need one small piece of info, that I am going to copy and paste, it saves me time.