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What is the use case for WordPad? It implies: 1. You don't have MS Word proper, and you don't need perfect Word interop. 2. You want basic WYSIWYG, so neovim
by harshreality 7y ago
What is the use case for WordPad? It implies:
1. You don't have MS Word proper, and you don't need perfect Word interop.
2. You want basic WYSIWYG, so neovim or emacs or equivalent, and even things like Notepad++, are out.
3. You don't have or can't use LibreOffice... because reasons?
I suspect either people won't care about WordPad ads or they'll discover LibreOffice and won't look back.
- jsight 7y agoI suspect that the other major scenario is that you opened it by accident and thought you were opening Word. Features like this aren't for techies who already know the difference.
- jmkb 7y agoWordpad is great for reading and authoring documents with text attributes but without page formatting. It's comparable to TextEdit on MacOS. And compared to Word or LibreOffice it produces extremely clean RTF code. (Or it used to, haven't used it in Windows 10.) And yes, it's handy for opening .doc and .docx files if no office suite is installed. ("Because reasons" often being that it's not a machine under your control.)
- Doctor_Fegg 7y agoAs a former magazine editor and still a freelance writer, I use TextEdit, the Mac equivalent, and have done for years. It's WYSIWYG; it's fast; it doesn't get in the way. It isn't a bloated behemoth like LibreOffice or MS Office or any other Office. It just pops up a window on the screen for you to type in. Any styling beyond bold and italic would be done by the designer in InDesign anyway.