Wordpad And Paint Have Been Improved In Windows 7
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Wordpad and Paint are most likely not your most favorite programs to use, but your opinion may change with Windows 7. Wordpad and Paint have basically been the same since Windows 95 with the same look and feel all the way up to Vista. These programs were extremely limited in what they could do and most people just ignored using them. I even recall some people saying why did Microsoft even bother including them with Windows. Both programs now include a new ribbon interface which resembles what Word 2007 & 2010 use.
New Wordpad
Worpad now supports the ability to read and write documents to Office Open XML format, which supports Open Office (.odt) and IBM Lotus Symphony suites. Of course Wordpad also supports the .docx that Microsoft uses in their grown up Word program.
WordPad also has more formatting options, such as highlighting, bullets, line breaks, and new colors.
New Paint
So with a new look and feel plus better options, if and when you upgrade to Windows 7 take a look at these improved programs. You may be surprised at what you see.
Comments welcome.
2 Comments
km2
October 3rd, 2009
at 4:19pm
Actually wordpad, mspaint (not forgetting notepad) are very useful for quicknoting for example in a meeting. They are very lightweight to use. When getting notes written down to a file is the *only* need, there is no reason to open heavy office programs for a simple task.
I admit that advanced tools have their places of course.
Nice to see these programs will be having a facelift. This might appeal some persons.
Wegas
October 4th, 2009
at 12:11am
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