WordPad

Microsoft WordPad is a free rich text editor included with Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and future releases of Microsoft Windows. Although capable of doing much more than Microsoft Notepad, Microsoft WordPad is not as advanced as Microsoft Word. To the right is an example image of what WordPad looks like in Windows 2000.

Microsoft Word is able to create, edit, and save their documents as a plain-text file (.txt), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and Word for Windows 6.0 (.doc) format (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME users only -- XP does not support .doc).

Users who are using a version of Microsoft Windows that supports WordPad can run Microsoft WordPad (wordpad.exe) by following the below steps.

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type "wordpad" or "write"  press Enter.

or

1. Click Start
2. Click Programs and then Accessories
3. Click the "Wordpad" icon.

• Additional information about viewing the contents of a file can be found on document CH000429.

Also see: Editor, Notepad, Word, Word processor