Notepad and WordpadI know I'm in danger of appearing really stupid here, but what is the purpose of Notepad?
Now as I have never used it - and don't know what it is for, why would I have ended up with so many on my computer? Can I delete them and not have any "comebacks" for doing so?
The Wilson's wrote
I believe you can delete Notepad but do not know what you would gain. It is only 52K in size and serves as the default text reader in Windows. I have even gone so far as to use a program called EditPad Lite that was discussed here several months ago. I use it because it does not add unwanted things to text files. I will admit I don't use it much but find little reason to delete it.
Keith Wrote
I use EditPad/Notepad all the time. I paste information into a text file and keep these scattered around <G> for future reference or when I need to even temporarily keep something. I have made a copy of the Editpad.exe and renamed it Notepad.exe. This is not a shortcut, but a duplicate of the EditPad program. Then I moved it to the Windows folder, overwriting the original notepad. Now when I open a large text file, I don't get the warning that the file is too large and will open in Wordpad. As a matter of fact, I can't recall the last time that I used Wordpad. Because I can open multiple text files in EditPad at the same time, it makes it very easy to make a single file that has parts of different files.
Word Processors and exchanging information
"Jen in AZ" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello, I would like to know how to send via e-mail a genealogy which is on my Microsoft Word. When I changed computers it was transferred to this program. All help gratefully received because I know nothing about this program.
Your best bet here so that others can put it into any word processor they may have would be to save a copy as RTF (Rich Text Format). This way, you retain all of the formatting, underlines, superscripts, etc. Anyone else can open it in either their word processor or the standard Wordpad (not notepad) that is on all Windows machines. (Win9x/ME series). It will even transfer to Mac formats properly. To save as RTF, go to File, SAVE AS, and then use the pulldown in below the file name to select the RTF extension. You will now have both the Word DOC format and the RTF (universal) format.