Pasting into WordPad from an HTML document, such as a Web page or email, typically automatically converts most or all of it to RTF, depending partly on the Web browser from which the text is copied. It is simpler and faster than a richly-featured word processor, with low system resource use. WordPad can read, render, and save many Rich Text Format (RTF) features that it cannot create, such as tables, strikeout, superscript, subscript, 'extra' colors, text background colors, numbered lists, right and left indentation, quasi-hypertext and URL linking, and line-spacing greater than 1. It does not support footnotes and endnotes.
WordPad can format and print text, including font and bold, italic, colored, and centered text, and lacks functions such as a spell checker, thesaurus, and control of pagination. WordPad replaced Microsoft Write.įeatures WordPad running on Windows CE 5.0 It is more advanced than Windows Notepad, and simpler than Microsoft Word and Microsoft Works (last updated in 2007). WordPad is the basic word processor that has been included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards.
