Wordpad 1) toolbar/format bar layout 2) formatting glitch

[ggull]

1) Toolbar / Format Bar

I used to have both the Toolbar and Format Bar easily visible even when I
moved the Wordpad window all the way to the 6-inch margin. It's
embarrassing, but I can't remember just how they were arranged (when it
works, you don't pay too much attention) -- logically, it must have been the
format bar under the toolbar.

Since a recent automatic "update" the toolbar and format bar are now side by
side -- and to see both at once I need to make my window far wider than the
margin (and can no longer edit two documents side by side, for instance).
This is a genuine nuisance, since I use both bars frequently.

I've tried many things (even Help , but can't regain the original
configuration -- I can switch which bar is at the left by dragging it, or
can drag one around so it becomes a free-floating windowette, but not the
simple stacked configuration I had before.

2) Formatting

Sometimes (usually, maybe always, when I cut-and-paste something from a web
page or elsewhere), wordpad goes into a mode where, for instance, it double
spaces after each paragraph (Enter). Seemingly, the formatting of the
source has been carried into WP, but there doesn't seem to be enough control
in the Format menu to do anything about it. Any ideas either on how to
'fix' this once it's happened, or to prevent it in the first place? like a
"paste without formatting" command?

 

[Elmo]

1) Toolbar / Format Bar

I used to have both the Toolbar and Format Bar easily visible even when I
moved the Wordpad window all the way to the 6-inch margin. It's
embarrassing, but I can't remember just how they were arranged (when it
works, you don't pay too much attention) -- logically, it must have been the
format bar under the toolbar.

Since a recent automatic "update" the toolbar and format bar are now side by
side -- and to see both at once I need to make my window far wider than the
margin (and can no longer edit two documents side by side, for instance).
This is a genuine nuisance, since I use both bars frequently.

I've tried many things (even Help , but can't regain the original
configuration -- I can switch which bar is at the left by dragging it, or
can drag one around so it becomes a free-floating windowette, but not the
simple stacked configuration I had before.

Set the one covering the other, but just above it and if done right,
you'll get your three rows back.

2) Formatting

Sometimes (usually, maybe always, when I cut-and-paste something from a web
page or elsewhere), wordpad goes into a mode where, for instance, it double
spaces after each paragraph (Enter). Seemingly, the formatting of the
source has been carried into WP, but there doesn't seem to be enough control
in the Format menu to do anything about it. Any ideas either on how to
'fix' this once it's happened, or to prevent it in the first place, like a
"paste without formatting" command?

There is a "Paste Special" option listed under "Edit". I've never tried
it here, but use it with spreadsheets all the time, to paste actual
numbers rather than formulas.

 

[ggull]

Set the one covering the other, but just above it and if done right,
you'll get your three rows back.

Thank you, Joe! That was driving me buggy.
I found this to work not if I pulled, say, the toolbar to be "covering but
just above" the format bar, but to a point almost entirely above the format
bar, covering the "menu bar" (i.e. the horizontal row of pull down menus,
File, Edit, View, etc). Probably just different ways of describing the same
action.

There is a "Paste Special" option listed under "Edit". I've never tried
it here, but use it with spreadsheets all the time, to paste actual
numbers rather than formulas.

Thanks again. I don't have an example immediately handy to try it on, but
will next time the problem pops up.