WordPad is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Follow these step-by-step instructions on how to open WordPad.
WordPad is a basic word processor that is included with almost all versions of from onwards. It is more advanced than but simpler than Word Processor and. It was called in to.
Features WordPad can format and print text, but lacks intermediate features such as a spell checker, thesaurus, and support for tables. As such, it is suitable for writing letters or short pieces, but underpowered for work that relies heavily on graphics or typesetting. WordPad natively supports the Rich Text Format, though it does not support all the features defined in the RTF/Word 2007 specification. Previous versions of WordPad also supported the 'Word for Windows 6.0' format, which is with the Microsoft Word format.
In Windows 95, 98 and Windows 2000, it used Microsoft's RichEdit control, versions 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 respectively. In Windows XP SP1 and later, it uses RichEdit 4.1, including Windows 7. WordPad for added full Unicode support, enabling WordPad to support multiple languages, but UTF-16/UCS-2 Big Endian is not supported. It can open (versions 6.0-2003) files, although it opens newer versions of the.DOC format with incorrect formatting.
Also, unlike previous WordPad versions, it cannot save files in the format (only.txt or.rtf).Windows XP Service Pack 2 onwards reduced support for opening files for security purposes. SP2 and include speech recognition, and therefore dictation into WordPad is possible. In these and later Windows versions, the RichEdit control was added and as a result, WordPad now supports extensible third-party services (such as grammar and spell check) built using the (TSF).