Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.
It’s still going to ship with Notepad.
Damn shrinkflation.
Tbf I haven’t used wordpad for a very long time. If ever.
I avoid it because if I’m editing a text file wordpad would just mess it up.
Maybe if it’s an rtf file I need wordpad.
But word is available.
But word is available.
Not for me. It’s just too expensive for a task that I very rarely need and there are good free alternatives (like Wordpad - though that’s not the one I use personally).
A rather international nightmare I would say
Not as good of a Gerald Ford reference that way, though.
I honestly think people using comic sans is more nightmarish than anything inflicted on us by wordpad.
To be honest, I never use Wordpad.
Either I just need to edit something quick, where Notepad excels, or in going to use just about any other option for text editor or word processor.
It’s surprising to see how much attention this is getting. And I can’t help but think how many people commenting about it actually use it to any real degree.
I don’t care as long as they don’t take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I’d hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.
CTRL+Shift+V to paste without formatting.
Have a look at NotePad++, it even has regex-search.
Go with open source Office alternatives or go with Microsoft Office Mondo, if you don’t want to pay. Otherwise, Microsoft 365 seems good with that 1TB storage.
