Close, but not quite the same WordPad is a rich text editor; Notepad++ is a text file editor. WordPad lets you do stuff like boldface/italicize/change the fon

Close, but not quite the same WordPad is a rich text editor; Notepad++ is a text file editor. WordPad lets you do stuff like boldface/italicize/change the font size of the text you're looking at, and it does the WYSIWYG thing of actually showing you the nicely formatted document.