John W Kennedy wrote:
On Nov 21, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Robert Derman wrote:
Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:03:21PM -0900, Duffield wrote:
Does Open Office Writer have any feature comparable to WordPad? I have
searched but find no reference yet to any quick and easy feature for brief
notes as provided by WordPad. I keep WordPad in my Quick Launch Bar and use
it often. With this feature, and having a couple other minor questions
answered, I could probably totally abandon my use of the Microsoft product
in favor of Open Office.
>From what I remember of Windows WordPad, is a separate application, not
part of an office suite (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). You
may want to use gedit on Linux or if you really mean quick and dirty
notes look at Tomboy.
This is exactly correct, WordPad is part of the Windows Operating System and it will be on you computer if you are using any version of Windows from Windows 95 on, unless you have intentionally deleted it. It is NOT a part of the MS Office package. It is a simple text editor, not a word processor, and it was first included to permit writing code for BASIC.
You have confused WordPad (formerly known as Windows Write), a low-function
word processor, with Windows Notepad, a plain text editor. The only thing
WordPad can do that OOo can not is start quickly.
John, it has been a long time since I have used any of these, and with
their similar names, WordPad and NotePad, I never could keep straight
which was which, but in any case, both were provided with the Win OS.
and IIRC I did use NotePad to write code for BASIC, I must have assumed
it was for that, because I used it for that myself. Anyway, once Win XP
came out I never went near a command line again and forgot all about these.
And neither one was ever designed for writing BASIC. Microsoft has never had a
BASIC for DOS or Windows that did not include its own editor. Notepad is,
however, useful for BAT files and CONFIG.SYS.
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